Chinedu Asadu

Chinedu Asadu

Chinedu Asadu is a senior staff writer at TheCable in Nigeria. His undercover investigation, ‘How Chinese Miners Endangering FCT Residents Enjoy Police Protection’ emerged winner for the Environmental reporting category. It exposed how Chinese miners working with Hongao Mining Company Limited endangered residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Nigeria by destroying their only source of water supply shared with neighbouring communities with consequence to their livelihood. It was revealed that the mining company failed to provide potable drinking water and did not meet an alleged promise of constructing either a primary school or borehole for the community. It also indicates the estimated amount of revenue being lost in the solid minerals sector due to illegal mining. Click https://www.thecable.ng/investigation-how-chinese-miners-endangering-fct-residents-enjoy-police-protection to read the story.