The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has said the visit of personnel of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was to register embarrassment.
Naijaonpoint reported that EFCC personnel visited Dangote Refinery’s head office in Lagos State for investigation, in January.
In an interview with Bloomberg TV in New York, on Monday, Dangote explained that he was on call with the anti-graft agency’s leadership assuring that he would come to their office, but was surprised to see EFCC personnel in the refinery.
“We’re going to come to your office, and before we knew it, they (EFCC) were already in our office. They visited the office and they didn’t talk to anybody, they did not arrest anybody, they just came and, and left just to register an embarrassment and that’s all,” Dangote said.
The Africa richest man added that in 2023 his company paid the highest tax to the federal government more than all banking industries in the country.
He noted that his company operations are done with carefulness because of the place it holds in Nigeria.
“The way we run our own organization, we’re the highest tax-paying corporation in Nigeria. Our company paid in 2023 more taxes than the entire banking industry and that is why whatever that we do, because we know that, yes, we’re up there, anybody, whether it’s a new government or whatever happens, we’re the first. So that’s why our own behavior has to be 100% clean.
“That’s settled and if any time somebody wants to ask us, okay, fine, what about your own tax, what about this, fine, we don’t have any issue,” Dangote added.