I laughed at the people mocking Aliko Dangote and supporting the government in the face-off between the industrialist and federal government officials in the petroleum ministry. Their simple reason is that Dangote has killed competition and monopolized everything. Nwanza n’ele oku, osi na o na-ahabusi mmanu. We always fall for the cheap narrative of Dangote killing competition without asking the relevant questions. Many of us have bought the monopoly narrative without a critical question, which is, if monopoly can thrive without a somewhat tacit approval or leverage of the government. Can a businessman comfortably kill a competitor without the tacit approval or support of the government of the day? Whatever monopoly Dangote enjoys can be easily whittled down by just a mere policy of the government. Sometimes, hatred, ethnic jingoism, biased stories and confirmation bias influence what we swallow hook, line and sinker. It would have been a better argument to say that Dangote is now facing what the average Nigerian eats for breakfast in the hands of the Nigerian state, other than it serves him right.
We quickly took sides and forgot to ask the pertinent question of who loses in this unhealthy spat. Perhaps, you can easily say Dangote, after all, his $19.5 billion investment in the Dangote refinery and Petrochemicals could be undermined. But, is that what it is? Have we bothered to critically analyse the question of, who are the direct beneficiaries of Dangote’s investment in Nigeria? Is it just about the money the businessman makes from the Africa’s largest market or about the value he has created for the Nigerian economy? Who forgets that Dangote could easily choose other countries or move his investments to some other countries and nobody will question him. Dangote built the largest single train refinery in the world in Lagos State. He owns the second-largest sugar refinery in the world, sited in Lagos State, the largest cement factory in the world in Kogi State. He established one of the second-largest fertilizer plants in the world, in Lagos State. These companies offered jobs to thousands of Nigerians. Arguably, the Dangote Group is the largest private sector employer of labor in the country, and his companies are among the largest taxpayers. Do we know the indirect employment provided by the value chain of Dangote’s businesses in Nigeria? If the Dangote refinery fails, who loses? Aliko Dangote, who can move his business elsewhere, the elite, who can afford any luxury of life or you and I, the social media warriors and it serves him right singers, who can hardly afford their basic needs due to the hardship that petrol subsidy removal and other bad economic policies brought about?
How do we rationalize a clear politically motivated attack on an investment that will save Nigeria of a whole lot? A refinery that will save Nigeria of spendings on forex and have some reasonable impact on the price of petrol is being undermined and we are clapping for the government. Are we not witnesses to how the diesel production by the refinery brought down the price of diesel to some extent? For almost 10 years, we have looked up to the refinery and watched every government say that when Dangote refinery comes on stream, Nigeria will stop spending scarce FX on importing petrol.
Interestingly, a refinery in Nigeria, crude exporter can’t get enough crude oil. Farouk Ahmed, CEO of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) said a refinery that former President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned before his exit from office and has started production, is 45% ready with its product inferior. Has the agency provided laboratory evidence to back up the substandard claim? In refuting the allegation, Mr Dangote took lawmakers visiting the refinery to a laboratory within the plant last week, where diesel from the refinery was tested alongside two different samples from imports. The results showed the sample from the refinery’s diesel had much lower sulphur that the imported ones. Is it not in this same country that bad fuel was imported into the country and till date, nobody was held responsible?
We are clapping for regulatory authorities serving a government that its heads globe trots in the name of wooing foreign investors. The government cannot go around the world asking for foreign investment only to be accused of destroying local investment What an irony! Are we not worried about the negative impacts of the Dangote Refinery spat? Are we not thinking about the dangerous signal this sends to investors about Nigeria? How can a government that cannot protect its local investors protect foreign ones? Investors in other countries are supported by their government, but in our own case, government becomes an albatross. If it’s not by direct political attack, it’s by depressing tax, unfavourable business environment and in some cases personal interest. Akinwunmi Adesina, the African Development Bank’s chief, statement on the issue in an indication that investors are following the development. Just in the heat of this, President Brice Oligui Nguema of Gabon has invited Aliko Dangote to invest in cement and fertiliser production in the country.
The allegation that Dangote is asking for monopoly in the petrol business is of no substance. What has stopped the government from fixing the country’s refineries or building a new one? Is it still Dangote using monopoly to do that? What has stopped other private refinery license holders from setting up theirs? Is it still Dangote? As of March 2021, the number of valid refinery project licences stood at 23, with a total capacity of 1.09 million barrels per day (bpd). This is according to a publications by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR).
I hope these regulatory agencies are not acting the scripts of the man behind the mask. Is it the hand of Easu and the voice of Jacob? The fundamental question that guides the conversations remains, are the regulatory authorities speaking to germane issues and concerns or Dangote and his most prized asset are facing punishment for his political choices and possibly offending someone or some people in the corridors of power?
Ebuka Franklin Okonkwo writes from, Awka
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I laughed at the people mocking Aliko Dangote and supporting the government in the face-off between the industrialist and federal government officials in the petroleum ministry. Their simple reason is that Dangote has killed competition and monopolized everything. Nwanza n’ele oku, osi na o na-ahabusi mmanu. We always fall for the cheap narrative of Dangote killing competition without asking the relevant questions. Many of us have bought the monopoly narrative without a critical question, which is, if monopoly can thrive without a somewhat tacit approval or leverage of the government. Can a businessman comfortably kill a competitor without the tacit approval or support of the government of the day? Whatever monopoly Dangote enjoys can be easily whittled down by just a mere policy of the government. Sometimes, hatred, ethnic jingoism, biased stories and confirmation bias influence what we swallow hook, line and sinker. It would have been a better argument to say that Dangote is now facing what the average Nigerian eats for breakfast in the hands of the Nigerian state, other than it serves him right.
We quickly took sides and forgot to ask the pertinent question of who loses in this unhealthy spat. Perhaps, you can easily say Dangote, after all, his $19.5 billion investment in the Dangote refinery and Petrochemicals could be undermined. But, is that what it is? Have we bothered to critically analyse the question of, who are the direct beneficiaries of Dangote’s investment in Nigeria? Is it just about the money the businessman makes from the Africa’s largest market or about the value he has created for the Nigerian economy? Who forgets that Dangote could easily choose other countries or move his investments to some other countries and nobody will question him. Dangote built the largest single train refinery in the world in Lagos State. He owns the second-largest sugar refinery in the world, sited in Lagos State, the largest cement factory in the world in Kogi State. He established one of the second-largest fertilizer plants in the world, in Lagos State. These companies offered jobs to thousands of Nigerians. Arguably, the Dangote Group is the largest private sector employer of labor in the country, and his companies are among the largest taxpayers. Do we know the indirect employment provided by the value chain of Dangote’s businesses in Nigeria? If the Dangote refinery fails, who loses? Aliko Dangote, who can move his business elsewhere, the elite, who can afford any luxury of life or you and I, the social media warriors and it serves him right singers, who can hardly afford their basic needs due to the hardship that petrol subsidy removal and other bad economic policies brought about?
How do we rationalize a clear politically motivated attack on an investment that will save Nigeria of a whole lot? A refinery that will save Nigeria of spendings on forex and have some reasonable impact on the price of petrol is being undermined and we are clapping for the government. Are we not witnesses to how the diesel production by the refinery brought down the price of diesel to some extent? For almost 10 years, we have looked up to the refinery and watched every government say that when Dangote refinery comes on stream, Nigeria will stop spending scarce FX on importing petrol.
Interestingly, a refinery in Nigeria, crude exporter can’t get enough crude oil. Farouk Ahmed, CEO of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) said a refinery that former President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned before his exit from office and has started production, is 45% ready with its product inferior. Has the agency provided laboratory evidence to back up the substandard claim? In refuting the allegation, Mr Dangote took lawmakers visiting the refinery to a laboratory within the plant last week, where diesel from the refinery was tested alongside two different samples from imports. The results showed the sample from the refinery’s diesel had much lower sulphur that the imported ones. Is it not in this same country that bad fuel was imported into the country and till date, nobody was held responsible?
We are clapping for regulatory authorities serving a government that its heads globe trots in the name of wooing foreign investors. The government cannot go around the world asking for foreign investment only to be accused of destroying local investment What an irony! Are we not worried about the negative impacts of the Dangote Refinery spat? Are we not thinking about the dangerous signal this sends to investors about Nigeria? How can a government that cannot protect its local investors protect foreign ones? Investors in other countries are supported by their government, but in our own case, government becomes an albatross. If it’s not by direct political attack, it’s by depressing tax, unfavourable business environment and in some cases personal interest. Akinwunmi Adesina, the African Development Bank’s chief, statement on the issue in an indication that investors are following the development. Just in the heat of this, President Brice Oligui Nguema of Gabon has invited Aliko Dangote to invest in cement and fertiliser production in the country.
The allegation that Dangote is asking for monopoly in the petrol business is of no substance. What has stopped the government from fixing the country’s refineries or building a new one? Is it still Dangote using monopoly to do that? What has stopped other private refinery license holders from setting up theirs? Is it still Dangote? As of March 2021, the number of valid refinery project licences stood at 23, with a total capacity of 1.09 million barrels per day (bpd). This is according to a publications by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR).
I hope these regulatory agencies are not acting the scripts of the man behind the mask. Is it the hand of Easu and the voice of Jacob? The fundamental question that guides the conversations remains, are the regulatory authorities speaking to germane issues and concerns or Dangote and his most prized asset are facing punishment for his political choices and possibly offending someone or some people in the corridors of power?
Ebuka Franklin Okonkwo writes from, Awka
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