Mr. Dauda, who has lived in the district for over three decades told Business Chronicle
in an interview that the boom in the mining industry has only brought
negative activities, including environmental degradation, high cost of
living, stealing and rising illegal mining, inadequate compensation for
affected farmers, overcrowding and joblessness to the district.
He added: ‘ Mining in the district not only contributes to forest and
environmental degradation, changes in water tables, air pollution and
other serious ecological impacts, but also indigenous people living
adjacent to the mines benefit least from the positive mining effects’.
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