The National Security Council, on Thursday, said it is considering a nationwide ban on motorcycles and mining activities in the country as part of its strategy to curb terrorist activities and cut off their sources of funding.
Addressing state house correspondents, after a meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House in Abuja, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami stated that investigations are still ongoing especially to establish the correlation between mining and motorcycles which they suspect provide funding for the supply of arms to the terrorists.
Malami who noted that terrorists had moved from the conventional ways of funding their activities to mining and ransom taking, disclosed the government was not unaware of the economic consequences of the proposed resolutions, particularly the motorcycle ban but it has become imperative in order to guarantee the nation’s security.