“Protecting significant investments like Dangote’s is essential to attract FDI and drive our economic growth,” the tweet reads.
Author: Abdoulaye Kay
“It is disturbing that the government would seek to take over a privately constructed facility after years of neglecting its own refineries. But why take over what a private individual built? Why can’t the FG fix its refineries all these years?”
Then Dangote refinery happened. It has, they said, the capacity to refine 650,000bpd, more than what we consume daily. I just listened to the head of NMDPRA over BBC Hausa Service, saying—and sounding innocent—that Dangote wants monopoly but it is the duty of his organization to guard the interests of Nigerians. “How can you go to the market and be forced to buy from just one trader?” he asked.
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