A federal high court in Abuja has restrained the Kogi state government from shutting down the Dangote Cement factory in Obajana.
followed due process contrary to claims by the state government.Although the federal government had said both parties had agreed on reopening the plant after the state sealed it, theSubsequently, the company and two other subsidiaries of the Dangote Group filed motions seeking to stop the state government from shutting down its operations.
In the second motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1877/22, Dangote Cement PLC and Dangote Industries Ltd also listed all the defendants in the first application as well as the Corporate Affairs Commission . The companies prayed the court for “an order of interim injunction restraining the defendants/respondents or any person purporting to act on their behalf from extending the exercise of the defendants’ oversight functions outside the concurrent and residual legislative list and unto the executive legislative list of the 1999 Constitution pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice”.
At the court session on Wednesday, Regina Okotie-Eboh announced legal representation for the companies.
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