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Environmental abuse: Ogun Assembly summons Dangote Cement

POSTED ON November 27, 2024 •   Politics      BY Benedicta Bassey
President/CE of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote and Cement bags. Photo :@DangoteCement/ X

OGUN STATE, Nigeria —The Ogun State House of Assembly, has passed a resolution summoning the management of Dangote Cement Company to provide details of all associated facilities, in line with global best practices.

The decision, was reached following the presentation of a report by the joint House Committees on Trade, Commerce and Investment, and Environment, chaired by Adebisi Oyedele.

Oyedele said, “The committee found the company culpable of the allegations levelled against it. The committee observed the lackadaisical approach and nonchalant attitude of the company to the livelihood of the people, having constructed a cement factory for decades without a trailer park and deliberately causing havoc on the host communities, as well as commuters plying the road, among others.”

The report was sequence to the Assembly's request to provide comprehensive plans addressing environmental degradation, haphazard parking, and other issues arising from operations at its Ibese cement plant in the Yewa North Local Government Area.

The committee recommended that the company must submit the Ibese plant’s master plan reflecting all related facilities.

According to the committee,“The Dangote Group must avail the House with the Ibese cement plant master plan, reflecting all its adjuring facilities, including the trailer park and industrial drainage channel, in line with international best practices.”

The Assembly emphasised the importance of the company being more proactive in fulfilling its Corporate Social Responsibility  obligations to the affected communities.

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