Syndicates to be limited to miners holding under 10 blocks – Broomes

Junior Natural Resources Minister Simona Broomes has said that as the ministry moves to put provisions in place to protect small miners, only those with under 10 blocks of land will be able to become members of mining syndicates.

Making a presentation on the syndicates on Wednesday before the parliamentary sectoral committee on Natural Resources, which is chaired by Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan, Broomes explained that the ministry is aware of the struggles of the small miners and in order to protect them it is making provisions to ensure that they are not eventually ousted by larger miners.

Broomes was responding to questions that were asked by member of the committee Odinga Lumumba, who enquired what were the requirements to join a syndicate and specifically whether an income analysis would be one of prerequisites. “My understanding is that the syndicate is to