 Poverty, unemployment and constant involvement of very powerful personalities have been identified as reasons that would continue to hamper the effective fight against illegal mining activities in Quarra State. The senator representing Quarra North Senatorial District, who is also the chairman, Senate Committee, Trade and Investment Sadiq Umar, gave the explanation during the 39th Media Parliament of the Niger Union of Journalists and UJ, Quarra State Council, in Lowering the State Capitol. The activities of illegal miners, both local and foreign, in Quarra State, no doubt is one that has continued to raise serious concerns, not just for the residents, but for security operatives who have made several arrests. We arrested some illegal miners from Chinese national, 13 in Nombas, a female and 12 male. They were arrested, like I said, for illegal mining, and they were mining in areas where they didn't have license to, and they were also into mining stones for quarry. The senator representing Quarra North Senatorial District and Chairman, Senate Committee on Trade and Investment Sadiq Umar, says the battle is difficult because of poverty, unemployment rate and involvement of powerful people in the act. He however says that both state and federal government will need to collaborate. That problem is hydro-headed, powerful people are involved, and it's not news, anything that brings money anywhere in the world is trouble, and it's a thing of business to deal with. I can tell you this, yeah, it's difficult, I mean, if for example, in Lardet District, where mostly the way I've gone, this thing is gone, and then somebody is in a community, he doesn't get 2000 nera to eat food. You are not giving him 2000, he doesn't have a job. He goes to farm to farm, and he struggles for six months, nine months, and he gets right and sell a bag of right food, he only gets 15,000. Now he sees many other people who come to dig, and he will smile with that, 50,000, 100, 200,000. It's a battle to fight, I can tell you that. And his part, the state chairman of NUJ, Abdulatif Lahire, maintained that a lot needs to be done to improve the standard of living in Quaranauts Senatorial District, while Umar noted that over 500 free medical operations have been carried out. What is required to make the zone enjoy dividends of democracy, and it is our candid view that quality legislations and collaboration among legislators representing the zone in the State House of Assembly and National Assembly will help in curbing infrastructural deficiencies and pregnant, and in turn pave the way for development. We will be able to do free medical services routinely in all our local government, where we mobilise our persons from the community to come and benefit from some services. In doing that, all these pioneer, the farmers and so on, we've done over 500 operations for those who did it, the whole apartment. The consensus by the media practitioners at the event was that collaborative effort between members of the Senate and House of Representatives from the State will go a long way in attracting meaningful development.