Stop Your Investment In Morocco, NLC, ASUU Tell Dangote

A coalition of over 50 civil rights organisations including the Nigeria Labour Congress and Academic Staff Union of Universities on Saturday threatened to draw a battle line  with businessman and

Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote over his planned investment deal with Morocco.They were protesting against the continued occupation of Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, popularly
known as Western Sahara by Morroco.SUNDAY PUNCH reports that Morocco has been under international spotlight over the continued colonisation and subjugation of the people of SADR.Dangote was said to have informed a business forum in Lagos that his firm was close to signing a multi-billion Naira deal with a Moroccan company to supply phosphate to feed a planned fertilizer plant.But the President of NLC, Dr. Ayuba Wabba and ASUU President, Dr. Nasir Isah Fagge, during the inauguration of Nigerian Movement for the Liberation of Western Sahara, in Abuja, warned that such plans would elicit a strong and organised resistance from the labour movement.While describing Dangote’s planned business deal with Morocco as an affront on the rights of the people of Western Sahara to self- determination, Wabba expressed the determination of the NLC and it allies to stop the deal.He expressed shock at Dangote’s planned business prospect with Morocco, especially at a time when the global community were pushing for economic sanctions against the Morocco.