Dear Mr. Dangote, I have heard but I dont buy it[Conclusion]. Even though i dont buy your tale of making $9 billion in one year just like that, I wont deny the fact that the money is in your kitty. Therefore I shall use the realism that has served me so well in the past and declare that given your consistent investment in the Nigerian economy and the inability of our people to advance socialist or capitalist revolution, yours remain the only model that we can adopt. The dangote model of investment in the Nigeria, if it had been copied by every looter in this country should have jump-started our economy and sent us to the first-world. This is because money would have just left the public sector to the private sector. For example let us imagine any looting President or governor adopting your model and opening new agricultural farms, investing in world-class health facilities, opening new banks, investing in the struggling nollywood and doing all these for the sole reason of profit. Your guess is as good as mine, at least unemployment and poverty would have been reduced to a few million cases an not to the hundreds of millions that we now have. Once again Aliko, I congratulate you on your latest feat. I want you to deliver on the refineries and fertilizer plants that you intend to build in lekki in lagos and olokola free trade zones in Ogun state. i know that this investments are strategic for you because of the tax moratorium and other incentives that you will enjoy. However there is danger on the horizon, this danger is that you are neglecting your obligation to your people in the area of lifting them out of penury and mystery. I know that you are no politician and your empire is not a government parastatal. But remember that we all know that there is a correlation between the increasing poverty and unemployment and your billions. This is the negative externality that all Nigerian people have been bearing for you and your class and even though this does not make our people shareholders in Dangote group, it had made them stakeholders in it. therefore i implore you that you adopt the Christian value of tithing. Start deducting 10% of your annual gross income and DONT PAY IT TO CHURCHES for obvious reasons. However get eminent Nigerians of proven virtues and integrity to administer your tithes and start giving back to the stakeholders of Dangote group-the longsuffering Nigerian people that your class had placed on the fringes of existence. Finally, I know you have been donating pittances here and you have just earmarked 200million NAIRA for dangote foundation. i knew you gave something to the flood victims wayback in 2011. But this is not what our people need. What we deserve is 10% of your annual gross and the best place to start is the $900million dollars deductible from the $9billion you made last year. Imagine this money going to the talakawas in the Northwest?[concluded]
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 06:46:47 +0000