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| Aliko Dangote is Africa's richest man |
Nigerian business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has sued Zambia’s
Labour Minister Fackson Shamenda, for defamation
after he (Shamenda) claimed that a senior company official tried to bribe him,
court documents showed today, Monday.
Dangote Industries Zambia, which is a subsidiary
of Dangote Group Nigeria, is claiming an 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 today.
The Post Newspaper, which is a
Zambian daily, had 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 is rated by Forbes as the richest man in Africa, and
owns a conglomerate that employs thousands of people across Nigeria.
The company is setting up a
multimillion dollar cement plant in Ndola, about 360 kilometres north of the
capital Lusaka.
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