Dangote Cement, Zambian subsidiary, has dragged the country’s labour minister to court for libel after the latter accused an executive of the company of attempting to bribe him.
The company and the minister have been on war path after he leveled the allegations against Dangote in September.
Dangote said in papers filed in court that the minister had created an impression that the company was exploiting Zambian workers and enticing government officials with bribes.
“The plaintiff has been brought into public scandal and its reputation has been injured”, Dangote said in a writ of summons dated October 10.
Dangote Industries Zambia (DIZ) has 400 workers building a $400 million cement plant, a staff count that should rise to 2,000 when production starts in November.
During a tour of the plant in Ndola, the minister of labour, Fackson Shamenda, said a Nigerian executive attached to the Zambian unit tried to bribe him at a hotel.
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