Kogi State government in a statement signed by its commissioner for information and communications, Kingsley Femi Fanwo, said that the government is in possession of a 28-minute WhatsApp call recording of Dangote Group plans to obliterate documents containing agreements between the government and the company.
Fanwo described the plans as satanic resolutions reached by officials of the company during a meeting they held on Friday night.
He said that some of the alleged satanic plans by Dangote were to use the Department of State Security (DSS) and other security agencies to arrest top government officials on frivolous charges; use the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to arrest some government officials in order to cow them and to also use the media to promote falsehood against the government and people of Kogi State.
Fanwo revealed that the company officials resolved to initiate both civil and criminal proceedings against certain government officials, block all the major highways across the state with their trucks to make it impossible for the state governor, Yahaya Bello to move out of the state capital.
The commissioner said among other plans, the Dangote Group resolved at the said meeting was to put out a false allegation that officials of the government that went to carry out the directive of the state House of Assembly made away with N207 million belonging to the company.
He said the over 28 minutes recorded meeting typified the mindset of an economic oppressor “who thinks he can use every apparatus of the Federal Government to fight our dear state into submission.
“We have uncovered certain plans by the Dangote Group at a meeting held last night to cause chaos across the state as a counter-attack against the State Government’s decision to get its own legally supported equity from the Obajana Cement Company. The latest strategy stems from frustrations occasioned by the failure of the Dangote Group to misinform the general public and its shareholders as the State Government has consistently and continuously presented the facts of the matter to the public.
“A top Management Staff of Dangote Group erroneously called a top Government official as the said meeting was going on to hatch their satanic plans against the Government and people of Kogi State,” he said.