‘I was offered ₦800k bribe to demonize Dangote refinery’

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Nigerian investigative journalist, David Hundeyin, has accused an international Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Dialogue Earth, of offering him an 800 thousand naira bribe to smear the world’s largest single-train refinery, Dangote Refinery.

In a lengthy post on his X account on Saturday, August 10, 2024, Hundeyin detailed how the NGO reached out to him sometime last week with a brief that required him to write a negative review about the Dangote Refinery using climate change and environmental concerns as justifications.

According to the controversial roundsman, Dialogue Earth, formerly known as China Dialogue Trust, is based in London, United Kingdom and headed by an Oxford professor Sam Geall.

He alleged that several American intelligence fronts such as Ford Foundation and ClimateWorks – which is blacklisted in India for funding organisations working against India’s national interest – are financiers of the NGO.

“Last week, I received an N800,000 offer from an international NGO called Dialogue Earth (formerly known as China Dialogue Trust) to write an article essentially saying that Dangote Refinery is terrible for the environment because something something “Environmental Concerns,” something something “Climate Change,” something something “Energy Transition Policy,” something something “COP 28,” he said.

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