Dangote's lust for wealth tears two sister
communities apart
Published: 21 May 2015 Hits: 68
With his fortune soaring from $2.1 billion to
$13.8 billion in the short space of a year,
Aliko Dangote, Chairman of Dangote Group
bounded up the ladder of prestigious
Forbes magazine’s billionaire’s list.One
would think that he would at least exercise
some restraint in his frantic lunge for
greater wealth and acclaim but Dangote
wouldn't.
His lust for affluence and favourable media
mention is limitless; so insatiable it is, that it
persistently drives him to commit shameful
and grievous acts in the course of business;
another disgraceful lunge by the chairman
of Dangote Group resonates in his bid to
destabilise Ebira and Okpella communities in
Kogi and Edo States respectively.
In order to perpetuate his dynasty and lust
for wealth, Dangote has sown the seeds of
conflict and interminable strife between the
two communities and stakeholders in the
region's limestone belt. Pundits note that if
the situation is not checked soon, it could
lead to colossal carnage and between both
communities and stakeholders in the
region's limestone endowment.
Dangote Cement Plc with support from Ado
Ibrahim, traditional ruler of Ebira, is arming
jobless youth and vigilante groups to wreak
pandemonium on neighbouring Okpella
community in Edo State. This plot to
destabilise the two communities is
frantically supported by the traditional ruler
of Ebira, Alhaji Ado Ibrahim. Ibrahim
allegedly answers to Dangote and owes
unflinching allegiance to him because the
immense financial rewards he gets from
doing so. Thus he works assiduously to
actualize his benefactor's ambition of
owning Okpella region's limestone deposits
and perpetuating his business empire in the
area.
The situation aggravated soon after Ado
Ibrahim, through his company, AICO Ado
Ibrahim and Company Ltd. illicitly sold
limestone deposits in Obu, Okpella in Edo
State to Dangote Cement Company Plc. A rival
cement producer, BUA Group's Edo Cement
Company made inroad into Okpella
community and in the wake of its attempt to
establish a cement factory in the area,
Dangote has declared war on the company
and its host community. It is instructive to
note however, that Obu, Okpella falls within
neighbouring Edo State and not Kogi State.
Ado Ibrahim's frenzied attempts to actualise
Dangote's business interests in the area
remains indefensible and untenable in the
face of hard, uncontestable facts. Available
facts show that Dangote Cement Company
has no business prospecting limestone in
Obu, Okpella, Edo State.
Intelligence reports commissioned and
issued by British colonialists from 1929 to
1954 make it abundantly clear and beyond
doubt that the River Obu marks the North
Eastern boundary of Okpella which has an
area of 144.5 square miles.
In 1954, the Nigerian government enacted
the law which is still the extant law
proclaiming the North Eastern boundary
between the Western region and the
Northern region, which till date consists of
the boundary between Edo State and Kogi
State as it was between Bendel State and
Kwara State.
Furthermore, in 1994, when Alhaji Ado
Ibrahim under the cloak of fathom and non-
existent series of Mining leases, including
Exclusive Prospecting Licensing numbers
11302, 11303, 11316 and SEPL 229, out of
which he carved a yet Fathom ML 17524
sought to annex the same OBU mineral
deposit in Okpella, Edo State, the Okpella
communities being law abiding citizens filed
suit no: FHC/B/42/94 at the Federal High
Court, Benin. The suit was against Alhaji Ado
Ibrahim and his company as well as the
Federal Minister of Mines, the Attorney-
General of the federation among others. The
Okpella people sought inter alia, the
invalidation of those prospecting rights and
leases as well as perpetual injunction to
restrain the defendants from entering
Okpella territory, Obu, under the cloak of any
such bogus mineral rights. Judgment was
given accordingly in favour of Okpella
people and Alhaji Ado Ibrahim and his
company were restrained perpetually, yet
and in violation of this judgment, he
continues to attack Okpella and attempts to
seize Obu deposits and excise it to Kogi
State.
Having failed at his attempts to do so, Alhaji
Ado Ibrahim and his company applied to
Okpella for local consent in 1997 for the Obu
mineral deposit but he was informed of the
impossibility on legal grounds. This is
because the Edo Cement Company had
already been granted the license. Thereafter,
he resorted to illegal means and methods to
acquire the rights; his desperate measures
led to his invitation of Dangote Cement plc
into the fray by seeking to alter the legal
boundary between Edo and Kogi State, and
renaming the same deposits as "Ubo" or
"Oguda-Ubo" deposit, a non-existent entity.
Alhaji Ado Ibrahim with the aid of Dangote
Cement Plc continue to wage war against
Okpella community and Edo (Bua) Cement
with a view to overrun the cement industry
in Okpella, Edo State and unconstitutionally
excise and cut the portion of Edo State and
reallocate it to Kogi State.
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Summarise this your piece pls, it's too long and I can't really get your reasons why you said Dangote is trying get to create disharmony between these communities...

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For those who didn't read the article and just scroll down for comments, Congratulation! You saved yourself from extreme horseshit

The power of capitalist: They don't give a damn about rules of principles when it comes to business, just profit marginalization and monopoly.

It would be of a necessity if the parties involve in this dispute can be called to order to avoid any form of eventuality.

Idrismusty97:
For those who didn't read the article and just scroll down for comments, Congratulation! You saved yourself from extreme horseshit

Don't you think you and your likes are the horseshit here?
You want to hide something from a horseshit like you, put it in a writeup.
Anuofia!
As for Ado Ibrahim and his Ebira people, they are sure going to pay dearly for their sins.