Dangote Petitions FG Demands Shot Down of BUA
… Dangote Angry Because We Refused To Raise Price Of Sugar During Ramadan- BUA Aliko Dangote, leader and founder of the Dangote group has petitioned the Federal government, requesting that the BUA Sugar Refinery be shut down. Dangote Group, in a letter jointly signed by the Aliko Dangote and the Chairman, flour mills of Nigeria PLC, John Coumantaros, sighted by THE WHISTLER, said that the commissioning of the BUA Port Harcourt refinery is an act intended to undermine the National Sugar Master Plan of the Federal Government. The group noted that according to the mid-term review conducted by the national sugar development council, BUA has faulted by failing to invest substantively in local production of sugar. It called for investigations to determine the quality of raw sugar imported by the refinery in Port-Harcourt and the appropriate penalty in terms of duty (60 per cent) and levy (10 per cent) to be imposed on the company. It said, “The sugar industry in Nigeria has been go...