A Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State Capital
has ordered Dangote Group, Dangote Cement Plc, Obajana Cement Plc, Dangote
Industries and their subsidiaries in a judgement against them, to pay the sum
of N2,697,125,000 billion in a mining dispute brought against Dangote by a
mining firm, Quest Two Enterprises Ltd, reports ITRealms.
In his judgment, the trial judge Justice Ayua of the Federal
High Court, Lokoja averred that the Dangote General Manager, Mr. Victor Mohan,
who was also the sole witness admitted under cross-examination that his
employers, Dangote Group, effectively shut down operations of the company by
dismantling power lines belonging to the company and disrupting their
operations. Despite agreeing to pay compensation for these acts to the
plaintiffs, the judge also noted that the defendants failed to live up to the
terms of the agreement to pay any compensation to the plaintiffs.
The court also dismissed Dangote’s counter-claims that the
actions of the plaintiff amounted to trespassing on their mining lease area. He
consequently declared that Dangote should pay the sum N2.7billion as damages
and issued a Garnishee order Nisi against 21 banks to satisfy the judgment
debt.
This new development comes as Dangote is fiercely battling
another mining dispute with cement giant, BUA Cement, in which the Chairman of
BUA recently wrote an open letter to the President claiming that Dangote in
collaboration with the Ministry of Mines & steel illegally entered its
Mining areas with a view to disrupting and sabotaging operations at BUA’s
Okpella cement plant despite a court order restraining Dangote and the Ministry
from claiming and or moving to the site. The cases comes up for hearing shortly
at the Federal High Court in Benin.
Ayo Midele/ED, Ops
Pix: Alhaji Aluko Dangote, Chairman, Dangote group
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