Dangote
Industries Zambia is suing the country’s labour minister, Fackson
Shamenda, for defamation after he claimed that a senior company official
tried to bribe him, court documents showed Monday.
The
subsidiary of Nigeria’s Dangote Group — owned by Aliko Dangote who is
ranked by Forbes magazine as the richest man in Africa — is claiming
unspecified damages for slander and libel as well as special damages in
the sum of 112,042.84 kwacha ($17,728), according to documents filed in
the High Court.
On
September 15, the Post Newspaper carried a story under the headline
“Dangote offers Shamenda a bribe” in which the minister claimed that a
Nigerian human resources manager from the company offered him a bribe
which he rejected.
“He told me that it was a tradition in their culture to give someone a token of appreciation,” Shamenda was quoted as saying.
“May
I take this opportunity to warn Dangote and all other investors in the
country to avoid enticing government officials with bribes — it hinders
progress.”
Dangote Industries is setting up a multimillion dollar cement plant in Ndola, about 360 kilometres north of the capital Lusaka.
SOURCE: PUNCH
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