 It is a good pleasure for me to be here to declare on this second is national conference, and we have chosen to associate it with national day in Nigeria. We have also joined welcoming experts from various parts of the world who are here to assist us in thinking through the solutions to what is the serious public health problem, especially in the example of the major states of Nigeria. I am aware that the first national conference on life poison is a joint effort of the federal minister of health and the minister of health and the minister of health, and I have heard about Pooja here in May 2012. The joint public health conference mostly covers technical aspects of environmental management and the treatment of poisoning, but today's event has been organized by the ministry of health and speed development, the collaboration with the minister of health, and we will provide a platform for key national regional and international stakeholders to come together to develop a multi-sector inter-disciplinary and pragmatic national strategy for solving future outbreaks as headquarters, especially those associated with accession of gold mining, and to prevent the repunt and closure of previously repudiated sites. A lot of the federal government has pursued a national low-curchess scheme, as well as the development of a national green policy, because green mining in Nigeria, as we have heard repeatedly, is currently dominated by artisanal miners using wood mining and mining methods, and cruelly possessive techniques. The most consequence is the exposure of miners, the empowerment and local opportunities to serious danger. The nearest green roads also contain high concentration of heavy levels that lead to the death release from these levels as a result of the crude possessive techniques leads to serious health consequences, not just for the persons already involved in the mining, but also for all of the green areas and communities. Children, of course, are the ones most at risk of death and disability. Many will recall the outbreak of red-colds that occurred at that level and repeated many times today in 2020 as a result of the processing of low-curched gold ore by artisanal gold miners in less dangerous compounds and doing scours. Some of the sky-diving affected villages at that time showed that more than 17,000 people were severely exposed and an estimated 400 to 500 children in less their lives due to acute levels. The combined efforts of various international agencies, including the International Foundation, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, the Terror Graphics International Foundation and the governments of Zanford State and the Federal Government helped to bring back tragic episodes under control. We were to leave five years after the Zanford Outlook and the Outlook of Civil Electricity was reported in May 2015 in two villages in Niger State. As for the Outlook of Zanford State, this new Outlook was precipitated by environmental red contamination from antisocial mining activities nearly 30 children died from civil electricity and many more were poisoned. Again, the medicines and bacteria with local abnormalities and managed to chelation treatment showed me after environmental pollution was completed by the Federal Government in September 2016 to date nearly 7,200 children in Zanford and Niger State respectively have received chelation treatment. I'm informed that this is the largest group of children under five years of age with zero lead protection reported anywhere. Unfortunately, treatment did not reverse the therapeutic effects of lead protein. It only accelerates the rate at which the body excels the lead in order to prevent further damage of blood so that the thousands of children who did not die of lead protein in Zanford are not just this. They therefore have to deal with poverty and other disabilities Many of these children will never attain their full protection as protective citizens. It must start by admitting that the current efforts to tackle lead poisoning and antisocial mining have not been adequate. What better evidence do we have for that than the fact that the Niger State Outlook happened five years after the fall when it contained adequate conditions of recontamination in previously prohibited sites in Zanford? I'm glad to think how we focus our commitment and strategy to protecting our vulnerable children and communities at large. As Nigeria traverses my boat, the road to shared mining prosperity must ensure that we do not do it in a way that I don't know but house, our health or our environment. We also say that the option is death by poverty rather than poverty. Offer is cynical for its choice. Antisocial mining and the life to enjoy the world from it is best if you put in place the proper preventive measures and provide the right equipment. No country should have to pay for its economic prosperity and the work of the lives of our women and the people. I'm confident that this country I'm confident that this country will produce a federally coordinated intervention plan that will reduce all the lessons learned so far and will make us build and further authorities as well as civil society and the governments into a land that must avoid working in silence and expect to resolve the problems, especially because these problems are strongly believed by the carefully thought out and comprehensive national plan that focuses on populations and communities in the most vulnerable to that burden associated with this number and will yield the desired results. Then we command the efforts of the ministry of mines and telecommunications the Ministry of Interior and other ministries and actors to convening this critical summit and this critical search for optimum ways of preventing workers especially of children and looking to especially combine with the innovative leadership and clear sense of purpose and the only movement is the of mines and scale the only worker of our life and members of this team and I also want to commend the great work that has been done by our partners the Ministry of Finance and all the civil society groups that have worked so closely with us to resolve these problems. The stage leaders and them is now a very special privilege and pleasure to declare the second international conference on the right side of the table. Thank you.