Police Uncover Illegal Cement Factory In Kogi

The Kogi State Police Command has uncovered illegal cement factory at Zango area of Ogaminana in Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi state where the product of Dangote Cement are being re bagged.
The factory which was located at a new site was used to repackage adulterated cement from Obajana Cement Factory and sold to unsuspecting members of the public.
The State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mohammed Musa Katsina, who led the operation, told newsmen that the illegal factory was uncovered by his intelligence unit of the command.
The site was littered with cement and empty sacks of cement ready to be packaged and sold.
A vehicle belonging to Julius Berger was also impounded at the site. The vehicle is alleged to have been used to supply white sand, an ingredient used in mixing cement.
While briefing pressmen at the site of the illegal factory, Katsina said three suspects have been arrested and that preliminary investigations revealed that the product was usually adulterated with some other substandard material and repackaged into Dangote branded bags and thereafter dispatched to the market through the same trucks that brought them to site.
He therefore called on the members of the public to be extra vigilant in the product they buy, adding the adulterated cement was responsible for cases of collapsed structures which have claimed lives of innocent people in the country.