President Bola Tinubu has set up an Inter-ministerial committee on securing Nigeria’s natural resources.
At its maiden meeting in Abuja, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, who serves as Chairman of the Committee stated that the aim was to deliberate on how to efficiently and effectively curtail all the atrocious, nefarious activities of either illegal mining, deforestation, or pilfering in the marine economy.
Alake added that the Ministers cross-fertilized ideas and brainstormed on modalities of achieving the presidential mandate of coming up with a blueprint for securing the country’s natural resources.
On his part, the Minister of Defence, Abubakar Badaru, stressed that the committee will come up with a robust strategy that will culminate a rejigged security architecture to effectively secure the nation’s forests, blue economy, and solid minerals.
The Ministers in attendance include the host, Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, Defence Minister, Abubakar Badaru and his interior counterpart, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo,
Others are the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Gboyega Oyetola, Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas Lawal and Minister of State for Police Affairs, Imaan Suleiman-Ibrahim.
Editor: Ena Agbanoma
