# Questions Over Dangote Refinery Land Payment to Lagos State - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2098316189780914419 - Source account: [@OmegaXDreams](https://x.com/OmegaXDreams) - Source language: English - Duration: 2:37 - Published: 2026-09-12 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state) Premium. But Dangote also said something last year that he paid a hundred million for that refinery. [0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=8) Hundred million dollars. The governor in charge then was Governor Fashola. [0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=14) Why wasn't that payment announced to the Lagos people? [0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=18) That's number one. Number two, Governor Fashola has come out to say that, yes, they gave subventions, they gave like a big rebate on the purchase. [0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=26) That was about a hundred million. But why wasn't it announced as at that point in time? [0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=33) I hear there's already a case in court. Some people, uh, took a case to court since 2024 that that announcement was made. I don't know if that case has seen the light of day. [0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=43) I pretty much doubt, but I want to know where that case is. [0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=47) Because it's so easy for the governments to claim that, oh, he has done a lot, he has built an ecosystem. [0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=54) But it's-- isn't it shocking that all of the ecosystems that the government ought to put in place themselves, you are thanking an industrialist for putting it in place. [1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=65) So what's the role of the government? And that's why an average Nigerian has become a government unto themselves. I'm sure in your compound, Ayo, you've got something called a generator, right? [1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=75) Y-yes, we do. You produce your own-- you give yourself your own water. [1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=78) So we provide our own infrastructure. You're a local government to your-- unto yourself- Okay ... in many cases. [1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=84) So you provide yourself your own water, right? [1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=88) You provide yourself your own- Security ... security. [1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=91) Yes, in some regards. So what does the government give to you? [1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=95) Nothing. But they get taxes from you. So where is the water? At least the water that you can pay for. [1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=102) No. So there's a hundred million dollars quibble on ground that we have not answered. [1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=109) And since government is a continuum, I think it's only fair for the state to answer. [1:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=115) We'd also want to know where the money went to, the line trail of the hundred million that the Lagos State re-re-realized. [2:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=121) That's very big revenue from the Dangote Refinery buying the land that which it sits on today. [2:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=129) So we'd like to know that cost. And yes, the government can praise Dangote for all it has done and all of that, which is very good, you know. [2:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=137) But to a large extent, we'd like to look and see how all of this will go. [2:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=144) I hear there's a case in court, but I don't know where that case is gonna go. [2:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=148) But give it to Governor Sanwo-Olu. In some regards, yes, he has done well. This is not about Governor Sanwo-Olu. [2:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3UNfjAHnXT7v/en/questions-over-dangote-refinery-land-payment-to-lagos-state?t=154) This is about what was done before he got into power