The artisanal miners behind Nigeria’s lithium boom

We are getting lithium from Chinese people and they brought a company in this village Here. Hello, how are you? So the activity is taking us there. When they are running around, The English ones were being dumped into disposal sites, and then given to our people beneath it, They would bring them back into the villages. We are taking lives from these places due to our knowledge and our ancient times. We have no food here. We're just getting by like this. You see how I did it. We have nothing, face mask, anything, this thing, ailment. We don't have it. We are begging the government to support us. with all those things so that we can move forward. They don't put money for school. Where I get it, and they think they're paying me. There's so much money. You don't realize it when they're in school, But you see what they do because they see the money. We don't have access to drinkable water here on a regular basis. and secondly, even the environment itself of our livelihoods. When we look at our environment here we are not supposed to be in this environment like this.