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The issue of quarries and crushers is no longer just a postponed environmental or administrative debate. The discussion that has been ongoing for years between the Ministries of Environment and Industry, the relevant official institutions, companies, and activists has come to the threshold of a different stage: the necessity of securing construction materials for a country in which the process of destruction has accumulated over more than two years, without turning reconstruction itself into a new door for the greed of merchants. This is directly related to the differences in treatment perception related to quarries and crushers.
While part of the government insists on maintaining the monopoly of three companies on the cement industry under the pretext that it is a national industry, it seems that another part of the government seeks, in return, to “discipline” those who destroy the environment, as the main part of the activity related to this industry is the quarries and crushers around which a widespread clash is centered, which led to the issue being dealt with in a way from which no results can be drawn.
What is happening today in the cement market is the main indicator of the coming disaster. It was enough for a limited number of quarries to stop to create a shortage of cement, and commercial monopolies began to play their favorite game: raising prices. A statement issued by the Taraba Siblin Company clearly revealed this reality, after the company announced that it was working at “maximum capacity” to meet demand and control the market following the cessation of the two cement factories in the north.
