Posted on: 12:45 Wed, 08 Jun 2016



Gift items, which include sugar, salt,
spaghetti, rice, danvita, and wheat
meal from billionaire, Aliko Dangote
have allegedly been rejected by the
Minister of the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT), Alhaji Muhammad
Bello.

According to a report by ThisDay
Newspaper, the food items, which
were donated by the Dangote’s
Foundation for the Internally
Displaced Persons (IDP) in Abuja,
were turned down by the Minister
with no reason.

It was further reported that all
pleas to make Bello realise the main
essence of the gesture fell on deaf
ears as the minister, who was said
to be in a meeting at the time of
delivery, gave directives for the
items to be returned.

However, the Special Adviser to the
FCT Minister on Media, Abubakar
Sani, has denied the allegations
saying nothing of such happened.

Sani denied the report that the FCT
Administration (FCTA) rejected the
purported gift from Dangote
Foundation to the IDPs saying
“FCTA is not aware of any
donations and therefore, not in the
position to neither reject nor accept
the said gift items. I asked who saw
the said gifts and the answer was
no one did.”

The Dangote Foundation, allegedly
took the gift to the FCT as part of
its mandate to give especially in the
holy month of Ramadan for the
indigent and the vulnerable in the
society.

Dangote Foundation has become
synonymous with the donation of
money and food materials to the
less privileged and victims of other
disasters across the country.