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.

Hundred million dollars. The governor in charge then was Governor Fashola.

Why wasn't that payment announced to the Lagos people?

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.

That was about a hundred million. But why wasn't it announced as at that point in time?

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.

I pretty much doubt, but I want to know where that case is.

Because it's so easy for the governments to claim that, oh, he has done a lot, he has built an ecosystem.

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.

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?

Y-yes, we do. You produce your own-- you give yourself your own water.

So we provide our own infrastructure. You're a local government to your-- unto yourself- Okay ... in many cases.

So you provide yourself your own water, right?

You provide yourself your own- Security ... security.

Yes, in some regards. So what does the government give to you?

Nothing. But they get taxes from you. So where is the water? At least the water that you can pay for.

No. So there's a hundred million dollars quibble on ground that we have not answered.

And since government is a continuum, I think it's only fair for the state to answer.

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.

That's very big revenue from the Dangote Refinery buying the land that which it sits on today.

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.

But to a large extent, we'd like to look and see how all of this will go.

I hear there's a case in court, but I don't know where that case is gonna go.

But give it to Governor Sanwo-Olu. In some regards, yes, he has done well. This is not about Governor Sanwo-Olu.

This is about what was done before he got into power