{"id":48717,"date":"2024-09-16T08:16:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T08:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=48717"},"modified":"2024-09-16T08:16:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T08:16:11","slug":"efcc-detains-5-suspected-chinese-nationals-over-illegal-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/16\/efcc-detains-5-suspected-chinese-nationals-over-illegal-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Detains 5 Suspected Chinese Nationals Over Illegal Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has apprehended five suspected Chinese illegal miners in Ndito-Eka-Iba village, Ibieno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dele Oyewale, EFCC spokesperson, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He said the arrests were made by the Special Task Force on Illegal Mining at the Commission\u2019s Zonal office in Uyo.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Oyewale stated that the arrests followed credible intelligence on foreign mining companies\u2019 illicit activities in Eket and Ibieno Local Government Areas of Akwa Ibom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe five arrested Chinese suspects are Zhon Qinping, apprehended on 10 September, and Li Yi, Xie Bin, Chen Mou Zhou, and Chen Zeng, arrested on 29 August.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were arrested at an illegal mining site, where a mineral suspected to be ilmenite, a titanium-iron oxide mineral, was being extracted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspects will face charges in court once investigations are concluded,\u201d Mr Oyewale said.<\/p>\n<p>NAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has apprehended five suspected Chinese illegal miners in Ndito-Eka-Iba village, Ibieno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom. Mr Dele Oyewale, EFCC spokesperson, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. He said the arrests were made by the Special Task Force on Illegal Mining at the Commission\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":48719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-48717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48720,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48717\/revisions\/48720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}