The President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has urged the Federal Government to stop the importation of dirty fuel into the country, saying the commodity is driving the rising cases of cancer in Nigeria.
The richest African revealed this during the Afreximbank Annual Meetings and AfriCaribbean Trade & Investment Forum in Nassau, The Bahamas on Wednesday.
Speaking of imported fuel, he said, “It is high sulfur, very polluting and also when you look at it, especially in Nigeria, in the past few years, we’ve been having cases of cancer, and most of these cases of cancer have to do with the bad fuel that we’ve been using. So, I will advise even here, you should check the quality of what is being dumped in your region in The Caribbean.”
He spoke further that Nigerian crude oil attracts the most premium, yet the nation imports the dirtiest fuels.
Asked if there is no regulation to check the quality of imported fuel, Dangote reported, “Now there is regulation, so it is upon the regulators to enforce the regulation.”
He added that his facility will end the consumption of harmful gasoline by Nigerians by the time its product hit the market next month.
