Nigerians are jolted by a confession by a Nigerian investigative journalist, David Hundeyin, who claimed to have been contacted to blackmail Dangote
Hundeyin, disclosed how an Worldwide Non-governmental Organisation (INGO) provided him N800,000 to blackmail the 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Refinery.
Hundeyin, in a sequence of tweets on Saturday, defined that his choice to make it public was to ship a message to the exterior pursuits engaged on the identical path as these inside the nation who’re decided to counteract the pursuits of half a billion West Africans.
Reacting to the revelation Henry Adigun, of vitality institute and public affairs analyst stated he is aware of the journalist and believes his story
Adigun, stated it is rather attainable he might have been approached for such a hatchet job however expressed happiness for his braveness to make it open.
Based on him, one of many NGOs, wished to contract him into blackmailing the refinery as harmful to the atmosphere.
Additionally reacting, the chief secretary of Journalists for Democratic Rights (JOEDER) Wale Adeoye stated, “I feel Hundeyin revelation is related to understanding the brutal, usually blood-stained competitors within the international market financial system the place particular person and nations attempt to undo each other in probably the most weird method.”
Adeoye continued, “If he was actually contracted to decrease Dangote, the query is, are there many different people, journalists, safety brokers or politicians which were contracted to sabotage Dangote?
“Are there different enterprise ventures in Nigeria, just like the Ajaokuta Iron and Metal Firm that continues to be stunted greater than 40 years after it was established?”
Based on the JODER scribe, it additionally raises the query: Does the Nigerian authorities give sufficient safety to indigenous corporations? I don’t suppose so.
He stated that defending indigenous corporations goes past offering police and escorts, there are different protecting shields a authorities ought to present for its indigenous corporations particularly within the context of world competitors pushed by data expertise and the capability of mass communication to affect demand and provide on the one hand and public notion on the opposite.
Adeoye added that the piece of Hundeyin was a sign that there are native and worldwide forces working for private beneficial properties who on the similar time are decided to destroy Dangote refinery.
He went on to say that it isn’t nearly Dangote as an individual however they’re preventing the entire gamut of native oil manufacturing which is without doubt one of the putting pillars that may raise Nigeria from financial break, including So long as we produce crude and refine it overseas, Nigeria won’t ever make progress.
“Once we refine overseas, they create solely Petroleum whereas we unfastened extra that 500 byproducts of Petroleum to the worldwide cartels” he stated.
Hundeyin stated, “Final week, I obtained an N800,000 provide from a world NGO to write down an article basically saying that Dangote Refinery is horrible for the atmosphere as a result of one thing one thing “Environmental Considerations,” one thing one thing “Local weather Change,” one thing one thing “Power Transition Coverage,” one thing one thing “COP 28.”
“The (unspoken however clearly implied) thrust of the temporary was for a distinguished native voice to place their title on an article that’s an argument or a premise for the Nigerian authorities to kill the refinery primarily based on its “vitality transition commitments” and “environmental coverage.” This conclusion wasn’t instantly obvious once they reached out to me, however I suspected the place it was heading, and I shortly accepted the provide in order that I might see the temporary and procure onerous proof. I’ve connected screenshots from the temporary under.
Persevering with, Hundeyin defined the organisation is headed by an Oxford professor with funding from a number of American intelligence fronts, together with an NGO which has been blacklisted in India for funding organisations towards the nation’s curiosity.
“Principally, this London-based NGO is headed by an Oxford professor and is funded by a number of American intelligence fronts (which is blacklisted in India for funding organisations working towards India’s nationwide curiosity). For no matter purpose, it’s now quietly mobilising a resistance marketing campaign towards what it describes as “Nigeria’s first refinery.”
Apparently, the established order of Africa’s largest oil producer having no functioning oil refinery to beneficiate its personal oil was not an issue for the NGO and the American CIA fronts who fund it.
“The human poverty attributable to exporting this uncooked materials and importing refined gasoline was not unhealthy for the atmosphere. Additionally, the actual fact of European refiners frequently mixing West African gasoline cargoes with poisonous waste and sulphur content material 200 instances the European authorized restrict (resulting in bronchial asthma, bronchitis and eye infections in West Africa) was additionally not unhealthy for the atmosphere. However Nigeria having a refinery that can wean West Africa off import dependency on these European refiners (and permit West Africa management the sulphur content material of its personal fuels) is the place the NGO and its funders draw the road. That one is unhealthy for the atmosphere, and David Hundeyin ought to write an article calling for the refinery to be shut down or restricted,” he added.
Based on him, some Western pursuits imagine Africans shouldn’t exist or have good issues, including that, “apparently, the only real objective of our existence is to reinforce their expertise of the planet and all that it has to supply.”
He added that disclosing his encounter with the London-based organisation was to cross a message that Africans can’t be satisfied to marketing campaign for the elongation of their very own poverty by “commissioning $500 hack jobs within the hope that we’ll be grasping sufficient to solely see the cash and ignore the larger image of what we will clearly see you making an attempt to do.”
When, contacted spokesman of Dangote group Anthony Chiejine didn’t reply to our inquiry.
