Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, has underscored the power problem in Africa by revealing that in his home state of Kano, 20 million people share 35 megawatts of electricity.
Speaking at the Africa CEO forum in Abidjan, the president of Dangote group revealed of the decisions that has made his conglomerate so successful.
“Where I come from, which is Kano in Nigeria, we have over 20 million people and we are sharing 35 megawatts only,” Dangote said.
“So when we started business as a group, we said that we would not go into the national grid. Every single country that we are operating in, we would create, generate our own power and that is why we have been very, very successful.”
