NECJ endorses government ban on riverbed mining

The Network for Environmental and Climate Justice (NECJ) has lauded the government’s directive to ban riverbed mining, a move aimed at protecting the country’s waterways from   environmental degradation.

On Tuesday, the government banned, with immediate effects, all alluvial mining activities nationwide in a bid to curb the massive mineral extraction that has destroyed water sources locally.

Riverbed mining has had a catastrophic impact on the environment, leading to the decimation of aquatic life, scarcity of clean water and pollution of rivers, which in turn has increased the risks of waterborne diseases.

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