By Adedayo Akinwale

Abuja — Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has vowed to go after Chinese and India companies engaging in illegal mining in the country.

The anti-graft agency also said it has decided to go after foreign non-governmental organisations involved in the proliferation of weapons by ensuring that they are also deregistered.

NFIU Director, Mr. Modibbo Hamman-Tukur, disclosed this yesterday in Abuja during the 2019 Sub-regional conference on illicit financial flow and assets recovery with the theme: "Increasing Citizens' Participation in Curbing the Illicit Flow and Repatriation of Stolen Funds within and from West Africa," organised by the Human Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA).

He pointed out that that most of the India and Chinese companies have continued to disguise as construction companies, but said any firm indulged in illegal activity would be brought to justice.

Hamman-Tukur said: "This point, I want to look at overseas countries that are operating and doing a lot of criminal activities in this country. We have started compiling records of Chinese and Indian companies that are doing illegal mining. They are mining salt in some places, in some other places, they are mining lead and we have those records and we are working on them.

"Some of them take the guise by pretending they are construction companies. That is not the way to go. Very soon they will be brought to justice."

Hamman-Tukur also revealed that the anti-graft agency has started reversing some of the transactions of the people arrested in the United States over internet scam.

According to him, "As recent as Friday, we were still reversing some of the transactions of those few people arrested in the US, reversing the monies back to their main coffers."

He explained that presently Nigeria has over 52,000 registered non-governmental organisations in its database, noting that any organisation that's not qualified would be deregistered, and would not be allowed to operate again in the country.

The anti-graft boss said the agency had already held a meeting with the Corporate Affairs Commission, as part of a collaborative effort to deregister fake non-governmental organisations.

He added: "Non-governmental organisations that have been caught in terrorism financing investigation will also be removed from existence. Non-governmental organisations that are found to be involved in proliferation of weapons, intermittent and short rage weapons, even though such organisations are foreign-based, they will be deregistered."

Earlier, HEDA Executive Director, Mr. Olarenwaju Suraju, challenged the Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the City Service in the United Kingdom to also expose those who steal money from Africa to foreign countries, the same way they identified Nigerians involved in internet frauds.

"We want to see them naming, shaming and possibly prosecuting those who are responsible for the movement of funds meant for development in West Africa and Africa as a whole to many of the developed countries, so that we can start developing our system and reducing the level of criminality both here and abroad," he said.

Source: https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/08/28/nfiu-targets-chinese-india-companies-engaging-in-illegal-mining/

Continue to chase foreign investors out of your country in the guise of calling them illegal operators.

Those illegal operators brought in capital and are employing millions.

What type of low brained people are even running this country?

Good illegal mining shouldnt be tolerated. These guys dont pay taxes and cause environmental damage. Only fools and criminals would support them knowing they can just legally register their business legally. The FG should be more proactive like Ghana arresting these guys. They arrestes dozens of Chinese illegal miners recently.

Blue3k2:
Good illegal mining shouldnt be tolerated. These guys dont pay taxes and cause environmental damage. Only fools and criminals would support them knowing they can just legally register their business legally. The FG should be more proactive like Ghana arresting these guys. They arrestes dozens of Chinese illegal miners recently.

Since we chased away tyre manufacturers, have we replaced them with local people, Did you employ the thousands that are floating without jobs? They will take to crime and you all will suffer.

The illegal mining must be providing jobs......plus the govt is incapable of exploiting the resources.

My point is that of you have no alternative, don't chase away investors. The job they provide is a help to the economy. You can always peau adequate them to pay tax and register.

SLAP44 post=81766125[s:
]Continue to chase foreign investors out of your country in the guise of calling them illegal operators.

Those illegal operators brought in capital and are employing millions.

What type of low brained people are even running this country? [/s]

Shut up.

Everything this government does is bad in your eyes.

When they paid your biafra soldier father some gratuity the other day you still complained.

Must be terrible to have you as a member of family.

Commentor:


Shut up.

Everything this government does is bad in your eyes.

When they paid your biafra soldier father some gratuity the other day you still complained.

Must be terrible to have you as a member of family.

Are herdsmen from Chad and Niger not illegal operators in the Nigerian agricultural sector?

Who registered them?

How much tax are they paying?

Are they not committing crime by spoiling other farmers crops unchallenged?

Why not also chase them away?

SLAP44:


Since we chased away tyre manufacturers, have we replaced them with local people, Did you employ the thousands that are floating without jobs? They will take to crime and you all will suffer.

SLAP44:
Continue to chase foreign investors out of your country in the guise of calling them illegal operators.

Those illegal operators brought in capital and are employing millions.

What type of low brained people are even running this country?

Your comments are stupid. Illegal mining is wrong. Foreign companies operate everyday in Nigeria like symbol mining. Its an Austrian company that opperste above board. Why should these other foreign companies break our laws?

Blue3k2:


Your comments are stupid.

Yours too.

SLAP44:

[s]
Since we chased away tyre manufacturers, have we replaced them with local people, Did you employ the thousands that are floating without jobs? They will take to crime and you all will suffer[/s].

Shut up.

Nobody chased Dunlop or Michellin away.

The people you campaigned for just recently made the ease of doing business most difficult.

Learn your history and stop misleading kids who come to learn on this forum.

That's good.

Commentor:


Shut up.

Nobody chased Dunlop or Michellin away.

The people you campaigned for just recently made the ease of doing business most difficult.

Learn your history and stop misleading kids who come to learn on this forum.

My point is, DID YOU REPLACE THEM?

SLAP44:


My point is, DID YOU REPLACE THEM?

Replace people doing genuine business for decades with who?

Don't act like a dunce, difficult as it may be.

Commentor:


Replace people doing genuine business for decades with who?

Don't act like a dunce, difficult as it may be.

You have ran out of points and now throwing insults.

Shame on you. Joblessness and destruction of businesses makes you happy.

SLAP44:
My point is that of you have no alternative, don't chase away investors. The job they provide is a help to the economy. You can always peau adequate them to pay tax and register.

Wadume, Evans, Oyenusi, Anini etc are all employers of labour too, don't you think the govt should have let them be?

SLAP44:


Yours too.

SLAP44:
My point is that of you have no alternative, don't chase away investors. The job they provide is a help to the economy. You can always peau adequate them to pay tax and register.

Lol your only oppose this because you're too short sighted to see consequences. Grow up its not a must to be subversive for sake of it. These companies can simply get license to operate.

Stop exposing your ignorance to world. It's only takes a minute to look up legal foreign mining companies like symbol mining from Australia or Thor mining from Canada. Its stupid to support criminality like you're doing.

OlujobaSamuel:

Wadume, Evans, Oyenusi, Anini etc are all employers of labour too, don't you think the govt should have let them be?

What's the difference between these men and Fulani herdsmen?

Must we apply justice selectively?

Blue3k2:


Lol your only oppose this because you're too short sighted to see consequences. Grow up its not a must to be subversive for sake of it. These companies can simply get licensed to operate.

Until Herdsmen get Visas and licence to destroy people's farms, all wrongs are wrongs.!

"This point, I want to look at overseas countries that are doing illegal activities in this country

What point would he be looking at countries in this country doing the same? ...and when would looking stop and action begin?

SLAP44:


Until Herdsmen get Visas and licence to destroy people's farms, all wrongs are wrongs.!

Guy just stop.
See as buhari supporters use you dey shine.

Don't condemn everything.

SLAP44:


Until Herdsmen get Visas and licence to destroy people's farms, all wrongs are wrongs.!

Im glad you abandoned that stupid argument. You can be against both sets of criminals. It's idiotic to embrace criminality. These guys should obey our laws or face consequences..

SLAP44:
Continue to chase foreign investors out of your country in the guise of calling them illegal operators.

Those illegal operators brought in capital and are employing millions.

What type of low brained people are even running this country?

Very ignorant remark. If you brought in capital, why not register and operate legally?

Good intentions buoyed by underhand and illicit means has no place in law.

A wrong act remains a wrong act.

Blue3k2:


Im glad you abandoned that stupid argument. You can be against both sets of criminals. It's idiotic to embrace criminality. These guys should obey our laws or face consequences..

But do you support selective application of the laws?

Better

SLAP44:


But do you support selective application of the laws?

Nope. If laws suck change it. It executive breaks law impeach him. I even made thread exposing most herdsmen break ECOWAS laws.

All federal agencies headed by aboki only, how is that justifiable in a multi ethnic society.

Blue3k2:


Nope. If laws suck change it. It executive breaks law impeach him. I even made thread exposing most herdsmen break ECOWAS laws.

I think you should push for the rule of law to be applied. There's no need fighting foreign miners if we allow foreign herdsmen to roam free.

To me, it makes no sense, herdsmen employ no one, kill and rape at will, pay no tax and degrade the environment.

Illegal miners just don't register their mining activities, but they register as construction companies according to the article above. R hey employ people and pay salaries.
Look at my points again.

The same people that will collect take home parcel of cash from them

The anti graft war is doomed already?