{"id":19936,"date":"2017-12-18T08:20:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T07:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=19936"},"modified":"2017-12-18T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T07:24:08","slug":"dangote-accuses-bua-stealing-illegally-mining-limestone-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/dangote-accuses-bua-stealing-illegally-mining-limestone-properties\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangote Accuses BUA Of Stealing And Illegally Mining Limestone On Its Properties"},"content":{"rendered":"
Management of Dangote Group over the weekend accused BUA of engaging in illegal mining of limestone deposited in its Mining Lease<\/span>\u00a0No. 2541,<\/span>\u00a0located in a boundary town of Oguda\/Ubo in Okene Kogi State.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dangote\u2019s Executive Director, Mr. Devakumar Edwin frowned at the\u00a0<\/span>media war, instigated by BUA against the Dangote Group, over a matter which is already pending before the Federal High Court, Benin Division.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Edwin revealed that: \u201c<\/span>Dangote Group validly acquired its interest and mining title in the disputed Mining Lease No. 2541 from<\/span>\u00a0AICO Ado Ibrahim & Company Ltd sometime in 2014. AICO itself had applied to the Mining Cadastre Office and Ministry of Mines and Steel Development for the said Mining Lease No. 2541 located in a boundary town of Oguda\/Ubo in Okene Kogi State in 2007. The Ministry in exercise of its power under the Nigerian Minerals and Mining Act, 2007 granted and issued to AICO ML. No. 2541 for the renewable period of 25 years effective from 1st<\/sup>\u00a0February 2008 and to expire on 31 January, 2033. Thus AICO by virtue of the said grant, became vested with the legal title over ML. No. 2541. In 2014, the Dangote Group approached AICO and indicated interest in acquiring AICO\u2019s stake in ML No. 2541. In 2014, AICO in exercise of its right under the Mining Act, applied to the Ministry for the transfer of its title in the ML No. 2541 to Dangote Group. AICO and Dangote Group equally paid all the transfer and statutory fees demanded by the Ministry.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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He further explained that:\u201d By a letter dated 05 February 2016, the Ministry wrote to the Managing Director of the Dangote Group to convey the approval of the Ministry for the Transfer\/Assignment of ML No. 2541 from AICO to Dangote Group with effect from 03 February 2016. Following the successful transfer of ML. NO. 2541 to Dangote Group, the Group became the holder of the Mining Lease No. 2541.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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He said even BUA in its process in Court acknowledged that these illegal mining leases which it claimed were granted in 1997 were temporary mining leases.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Edwin also recalled that the then Minister for Solid Minerals under Olusegun Obasanjo\u2019s regime, Dr Oby Ezekwesili sometime in 2006 waded into the dispute and invited the managements of Edo Cement Company Limited and AICO Ado Ibrahim & Company Limited for a meeting and that in the course of the meeting the then Minister again queried the legality of Mining Lease Nos 18912 and 18913 and the power of the Governor of Edo State to grant such mining leases.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cAt the end of the Meeting, the Minister declared the Edo Cement\u2019s Mining Leases Nos. 18912 and 18913 illegal and declared the mining site open for interested investors. Given that AICO\u2019s then existing Mining Lease No. 17825 was yet to be renewed even though application for renewal was pending, AICO in 2007 (under the Mining Act, 2007) applied for the fresh Mining Lease No. 2541 and the Ministry granted it in 2008 without any objection from Edo Cement Company\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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Edwin said AICO, who sold the right to Dangote, continued its mining operations in the Mining Lease No. 2541 undisturbed until\u00a0<\/span>BUA Group acquired Edo Cement Company Limited and resuscitated the dispute again.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Edwin further revealed that it was the attempt by BUA to encroach on AICO\u2019s mining title in Mining Lease No. 2541 that prompted AICO to write to the Ministry in 2015 complaining of BUA\u2019s encroachment.<\/span><\/div>\n
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He said: \u201cThe Ministry after investigation in the same 2015 by the letter dated 21 January 2015 wrote to the Chairman of BUA Group directing BUA to stop mining within the ML. No. 2541. It was this same letter from the Ministry that prompted BUA to file a Suit at the Federal High Court Benin in 2016.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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Edwin said: \u201cIt is therefore appalling that BUA Group in the midst of these overwhelming facts will still want the public to believe that Dangote Group is after its business when in actual fact BUA has been the one mining illegally in Dangote Mining Lease and attacking its officials without any justification\u2026<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>The crocodile tears being shed by BUA in its cry for help and open letter to the President is most laughable and a total distraction from BUA\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0continuous illegal activities within Dangote\u2019s ML 2541 aimed at depleting and exhausting the limestone reserves in order to sabotage\u00a0<\/span>Dangote Group\u2019s legitimate investment.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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Photo Caption: From Left,\u00a0Acting Chief Executive Officer, Dangote Cement Plc, Engr. Joseph Makoju; Group Executive Director, Strategy, Capital Projects and Portfolio Development, Dangote Industries Limited, Devakumar Edwin; and Mining Consultant to Dangote Industries Limited, Taslim Jimoh, during a press briefing to debunk the claims by BUA Group on allegation of Dangote Cement sabotaging operations of BUA Cement in Edo and Kogi State, in Lagos on Sunday, December 17, 2017<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/p>
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Management of Dangote Group over the weekend accused BUA of engaging in illegal mining of limestone deposited in its Mining Lease\u00a0No. 2541,\u00a0located in a boundary town of Oguda\/Ubo in Okene Kogi State. 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