
A row is brewing between Zambia and
Dangote Cement, a major employer in Africa’s second largest copper
producer, after a government minister accused an executive at the local
unit of the Nigerian company of attempting to bribe him.
The dispute appears to be the latest in a
string of incidents in which the southern African nation’s government
has resorted to strong-arm or unorthodox tactics against foreign
investors it believes are circumventing labour laws.
Dangote Industries Zambia has 400 workers
building a $400m cement plant, a staff count that should rise to 2,000
when production starts in November, deputy industry minister, Miles
Sampa, toldReuters.