"You want to enter? Come, let's go in," the badgering voice of Abubakar Sadiq urged this reporter. "Just follow us, you don't need to be afraid. Come and see how we get this thing from under the ground," he added, now motioning the newcomer to the opening of the cave.
To an onlooker, the agitated Mr Sadiq is a miner who will dare all odds to enter the cave. But that was not the case in his first visit to the Tsani mine located in Kankara, Katsina State.
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