Dangote Resorts To Violence Over Mining Site….’Hires Thugs’ Against BUA Group

The feud between both cement giants reached new heights when thugs believed to have been hired by persons in Dangote’s camp besieged the said mining site recently.

The WHISTLER reliably gathered that the thugs left behind 3 Dangote containers after leaving the site in ruins.

The fresh attack comes weeks after the Chairman of BUA Group, Abdulsamad Rabiu, petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari over relentless efforts by Dangote Group to wrestle control of BUA’s mining site with the connivance of John Kayode Fayemi, the Minister of Mines and Steel Development.

“Our cement business has of late come under intense, consistent attacks … as the minister Kayode Fayemi, Dangote group and their cohorts have sought to employ instruments of state … to forcefully wrest control of our mining areas.

“The ministry had earlier in 2015 issued a stop work order on this same disputed site but the BUA Group disregarded the order and went ahead with its illegal mining activities, under heavy cover of armed soldiers, policemen and men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, said the ministry of mines and steel,” Rabiu had said in his letter to the president.

Meanwhile, our correspondent gathered that it took the intervention of another group of thugs to dislodge the alleged Dangote thugs from the BUA mining site.

The WHISTLER further reports that this is not first instance where Dangote Group will be fingered in the act of trying to hijack mining sites from other firms.

Just recently, a Federal High Court siting in Lokoja awarded the sum of N2,697,125,000 in favour of Quest Two Enterprises Limited in a suit against Dangote group.

Justice Ayua of the said Court found Danote and its subsidiaries guilty of shutting down the operations of Quest Two Enterprises by dismantling power lines belonging to the company.