Eight Chinese nationals have been arrested in Plateau state for alleged illegal mining.
National Security Adviser (NSA), Major-General, Ali Monguno (retd), ordered the arrest of the miners yesterday at Kampani Zurak village in Bashar chiefdom of Wase local government area of the state.
Also arrested were 12 Nigerians allegedly involved in the activities in the area.
Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi, who was in the company of the NSA, said the foreigners and their accomplices would be taken to Abuja.
The minister also declared the alleged chief miner, Abdullahi Usman, popularly known as “Dan China”, wanted.
He said the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, had directed that illegal mininge sites in the area be sealed up and the miners arrested.
