Former Director of the Presidential Campaign Council of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Hajia Naja’atu Mohammed, has accused big shots including some state governors of operating illegal mining business, and so behind insecurity plaguing the north.
Naja’tu has been n the news as a result of her acrimonious exit from campaign team of APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
She linked the insecurity problem in the north to the activities of unnamed big shots in an interview she granted Arise Television.
Her remarks, “Look at the areas that are generally affected by this. The North-East for instance has the blue diamonds that is a strategic mineral, you have oil at the Chad Basin that is being explored right now but illegally.
“What of in Zamfara State, Zamfara has more Gold than Ghana but gold from Zamfara is being traded in Dubai. There is a market in Dubai called ‘Nigeria gold market’ go and check. So who is doing this mining? Most times they are the governors, the people in power in connivance with foreign mercenaries.
“Remember when they said there is no-flight zone in Zamfara, why should there be a no-flight zone when Zamfara doesn’t even have an airport but aircrafts land and take off from Zamfara.
“Let me tell you something else, every container that comes from China ends up in Zamfara has all the strategic minerals that you can think of. So when these containers come they pack the soil. A bag of soil from Zamfara is today sold at N5000, so they need to displace the people to allow them to continue with their mining. It’s multifaceted.”
The 67 years old also alleged Vice-Presidential candidate of the APC, Kashim Shettima of having a hand in terrorism.
She said, “Especially as it concerns security, you must have an enabling environment before you do anything, so you cannot take someone that is virtually senile and another person that has been associated on several occasions with funding terrorism. That is Kashim Shettima.
“We should not forget Kabiru Sokoto, one of the most wanted terrorists, was found and arrested in his (Shettima) house.
“These are people that have severally being accused of habouring terrorists and why should Shettima be visiting and making solidarity with a policeman that is being tried for drug trafficking. Why?”
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