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 multi-million dollar cement
plant in Ndola, about 360 kilometres north of the capital, Lusaka.
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