By Ezekiel Dontinna
The leadership of Plateau Indigenous Miners Association, has sought to collaborate with the Senator Pam Mwadkon Dachungyang in promoting legal mining to reduce risks around mining sites through collaboration.
This came in a press statement signed by the SA Media to Senator Pam Mwadkon Dachungyang, Eric Dung, and made available to newsmen in Jos, the Plateau State capital recently.
The Team led by its State Chairman, Mr Wilfred Pwajok, stated that they were at the National Assembly to familiarise themselves with the Distinguished Senator and also commend him for his modest strides since his election earlier in the year.
He further disclosed that, they were in the office to intimate him about the efforts of the association in the promotion of legal mining, reduction of risks at mining sites and also foster collaborative ventures in the sector.
The Association, however, handed over an invitation to the Senator inviting him to attend its forthcoming event tagged “Miners Night” which would soon hold.
Responding, Senator Pam Mwadkon Dachungyang, who played them host in his office at the National Assembly, Abuja, commended them for following due process to have come all the way to partner with his office.
He, therefore, appreciated the association for the role they were playing in the mining sector nothing that, there was every need for the country to harness its rich natural resources for the country’s economic growth and development.
Dachungyang, stressed that with a vast deposits of natural resources, Plateau State has what it takes to use these resources for the benefit of its people.
He assured that as lawmakers, they would have to look critically at the present laws with a view to making them more people friendly so that, it would boost not the economy of the State, but the country at large.
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