Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote has dismissed the claims that his group of companies enjoy monopoly, insisting it is not true.
Dangote stated this on Saturday when he received the
leadership of the House of Representatives led by the Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas
and his deputy, Benjamin Kalu.
Africa’s richest man said the labelling of his group of companies
as monopolistic is disheartening.
He said his group of companies had never stopped anyone from
doing the same business that they are doing.
He said: “If you look at all our operations at Dangote
(Group), we add value; we take local raw materials and turn them into products,
and we sell.
“We have never consciously or unconsciously stopped anybody
from doing the same business that we are doing.
“When we first came into cement production, it was only
Lafarge that was operating here in Nigeria…Nobody ever called Lafarge a
monopoly,” he said, adding that labelling his group of companies as
monopolistic is disheartening.
“Monopoly is when you stop people, you block them through
legal means. No, it is a level playing field whereby whatever Dangote was given
in cement, for example, other people were given because some of them even got
more than us,” he said.
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Dangote built the refinery in the wrong place, why Lagos, has Lagos any oil?
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