Classification: Declassified for Public Release | Date: January 2026
The African extractive sector currently stands at a precipice defined not by geological scarcity, but by a catastrophic failure in the architecture of operational continuity. The continent, particularly the resource-rich corridors of West and Central Africa, is navigating a Sovereign Solvency Crisis that threatens to render vast tracts of mineral wealth economically sterile. This crisis is characterized by the paralysis of capital deployment—we estimate over $100 billion in potential foreign direct investment (FDI) and domestic capital is currently trapped outside the operational theater, effectively frozen by a risk profile that traditional actuarial models can no longer price. This capital is not deterred by the technical challenges of extraction; the geology of the Lithium Belt in Nigeria or the Copperbelt in the DRC remains world-class. Rather, it is paralyzed by the prohibitive cost of what The Mohgix Institute defines as The Clarity Tax.
The Clarity Tax is the invisible, cumulative, and often exponential cost of conflict. It is the aggregate financial hemorrhage caused by community blockades, sabotage, kidnapping premiums, regulatory hostility, and the ceaseless cycle of force majeure that defines the current operational landscape. In the mining sector, this tax acts as a friction coefficient on capital efficiency. Where a technical feasibility study might project an Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of 25%, the imposition of the Clarity Tax—manifesting through delayed permits, burnt excavators, and ransom payments—can depress the realized IRR to negative territory. It is an unquantified liability on the balance sheet of every major concession holder operating in the region, transforming assets that are technically solvent into ventures that are operationally insolvent.
The prevailing methodology for mitigating this risk is the Import Model of security. This model is a legacy construct, a relic of a colonial extraction logic that views the operational environment as hostile territory to be conquered rather than a jurisdiction to be governed. Under this paradigm, mining majors and junior concession holders import kinetic force—Mobile Police (MOPOL), Army detachments, or Private Military Contractors (PMCs)—to create a perimeter of steel around the asset. The logic is one of exclusion: the mine is a fortress, the community is the enemy, and security is achieved by maintaining a kinetic overmatch against the local population.
However, the operational reality of the last decade has demonstrated that this model is structurally obsolete. It creates a Fortress Economy that alienates the host community, turning the local population into a hostile Swarm that encircles the asset, probing for weaknesses. This dynamic does not produce security; it produces a siege. The imported forces, lacking local intelligence and cultural integration, often exacerbate tensions through disproportionate violence or cultural insensitivity, triggering a feedback loop of grievance and retaliation that further inflates the Clarity Tax.
In response to this systemic failure, The Mohgix Institute proposes a radical doctrinal shift: The Dangote Doctrine.
This strategic framework draws its intellectual lineage from the industrial philosophy of Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, who achieved market hegemony not by trading, but by radically restructuring the supply chain of critical commodities. Just as Dangote rejected the importation of raw sugar and cement in favor of Backward Integration—owning the means of production from the soil to the silo—the modern mining concession holder must reject the importation of security. They must Backward Integrate their security architecture.
The core thesis of this doctrine is absolute: The Community is the Supply Chain.
We propose a transition from Perimeter Defense (Guns) to Human Integration (Jobs). We view the Illegal Miner, the Bandit, and the Agitator not merely as criminal threats to be eliminated by state force, but as Misallocated Labor to be absorbed by corporate strategy. The operational imperative is to capture this hostile labor force, formalize its chaotic energy, and convert it into a disciplined unit—the Green Marshal Corps—tasked with environmental stewardship and asset protection. By transforming the primary threat vector (the local youth) into the primary security asset, the concession holder effectively eliminates the Clarity Tax, secures the Social License to Operate (SLO), and establishes a sovereign perimeter that no imported force can replicate. This is not philanthropy; it is the ultimate hedge against sovereign risk.
To reconstruct the security architecture of the African mining sector, one must first deconstruct the industrial architecture that built the continent's largest conglomerate. The dominance of the Dangote Group is not a function of chance or mere political patronage; it is the result of a ruthless, almost fanatical adherence to the philosophy of Backward Integration. This philosophy serves as the foundational metaphor for our proposed security strategy.
Prior to the strategic pivots of the early 2000s, the Nigerian economy functioned primarily as a dumping ground for finished goods. The nation imported the vast majority of its cement and sugar, bleeding scarce Foreign Exchange (FX) reserves to pay for commodities that could, in theory, be produced locally. This Import Model was characterized by high velocity but extreme fragility. Traders could make quick profits, but the entire system was held hostage by external variables: the volatility of the Naira against the Dollar, port congestion in Apapa, and global commodity price fluctuations. It was a model of dependency, where the sovereign capability of the nation was outsourced to foreign refineries and kilns.
In the mining security context, the Import Model mirrors this fragility. The concession holder imports security personnel—MOPOL from the state capital or Army units from a distant barracks. These forces are external variables. They do not understand the terrain; they do not speak the local dialect; they possess no social capital within the host community. Their loyalty is transactional, tied strictly to the per diem. When the community riots—often triggered by a grievance that a local operative would have foreseen and mitigated—these imported forces have two settings: kinetic overreaction or tactical withdrawal. They provide the illusion of safety, a visual deterrent that disintegrates upon contact with a determined asymmetric threat. Financially, this model drains Operational Expenditure (OpEx) without building any residual asset value. The capital spent on MOPOL stipends is burned; it creates no long-term stability.
The emergence of the Dangote Doctrine was predicated on the realization that true hegemony requires absolute control over the value chain. Supported by the Federal Government’s Backward Integration Policy (BIP), Dangote shifted the paradigm from trading to manufacturing. This was not merely an economic decision; it was a sovereign one.
The Sugar Case Study:
Dangote Sugar Refinery (DSR) committed over $700 million to the Backward Integration Project (BIP). This was a capital-intensive maneuver designed to cut Nigeria's heavy dependence on raw sugar imports. The strategy involved the acquisition of vast tracts of land—68,000 hectares in Tunga, Nasarawa State, and 32,000 hectares in Numan, Adamawa State—to grow sugar cane locally.
The scale of this pivot cannot be overstated. The target was to produce 1.5 million metric tonnes of refined sugar annually from locally grown sugarcane within ten years. This required not just building factories, but terraforming the landscape—investing in irrigation, infrastructure, and machinery. It meant creating 75,000 to 150,000 jobs across the value chain. By engaging the local population as outgrowers and farmhands, Dangote did not just build a supply chain; he built a constituency. The community became the production engine. The survival of the community became linked to the survival of the sugar estate.
The Cement Case Study:
Similarly, in the cement sector, Dangote Cement leveraged the BIP to transform from a bulk importer into the continent's largest producer. The strategy involved massive Capital Expenditure (CapEx) to build integrated plants in Obajana and Ibese. The result was a dramatic reduction in cement imports, saving the nation billions in FX and turning Nigeria into a net exporter of cement. The Backward Integration of limestone mining meant that the factory could not function without the quarry, and the quarry could not function without the community.
The logic of the factory must now be transposed to the perimeter fence. The concession holder must stop importing security and start manufacturing it locally. The parallel is exact. Just as Dangote realized that relying on Brazilian raw sugar was a strategic vulnerability, the mine owner must realize that relying on the Nigerian Police Force for site security is a strategic vulnerability.
The Raw Material:
In this metaphor, the Raw Material is not limestone or sugar cane; it is the local population. Specifically, it is the demographic cohort of young, able-bodied men who are currently engaged in illegal artisanal mining, banditry, or community agitation. These men are currently waste products or threat vectors in the eyes of the traditional security manager. However, in the Dangote Doctrine, they are untapped resources. They possess energy, terrain knowledge, and a capacity for violence that can be redirected.
The Processing:
The Factory is the formalization and training process. Just as DSR refines raw cane into white sugar, the mining company must refine the raw local youth into disciplined Green Marshals. This involves a process of demobilization from the informal economy and remobilization into the formal security architecture. It requires investment in training, uniforming, and equipping this force—converting them from Illegal Miners into Environmental Stewards and Perimeter Guards.
The Output:
The final product is Sovereign Security. This is a force that is indigenous to the terrain. They know every footpath, every creek, and every potential intruder because they live there. Their loyalty is secured not just by the paycheck, but by the social contract—the mine provides them with dignity and status.
The Strategic Parallel:
Dangote: Stops importing sugar to save FX and build local capacity.
Mining Major: Stops importing Police/Military to save OpEx and build local stability.
Result: In both cases, the Supply Chain becomes resilient because it is rooted in the soil of the operation. The mine is no longer a foreign entity imposed on the land; it is an organic part of the local ecosystem. The community protects the mine because the mine feeds the community—not through charity, but through the payroll.
We must move beyond the qualitative "feel-good" language of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The market does not care about "stakeholder engagement" until it impacts the Internal Rate of Return (IRR). We must run the Shadow P&L on the lack of a Social License. We must quantify the Clarity Tax using the rental model to demonstrate the terrifying speed of capital destruction.
If the Dangote Doctrine provides the industrial theory, the Tantita Model provides the kinetic proof. The operations of Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited (TSSNL) in the Niger Delta serve as the definitive empirical validation that integrating hostile actors into the security architecture is infinitely superior to fighting them. This case study deconstructs the mechanisms of the Tantita intervention, framing it as the operational blueprint for the mining sector.
For decades, the Nigerian State relied exclusively on the Import Model to secure its critical hydrocarbon infrastructure. The Federal Government deployed the Joint Task Force (JTF)—a combined force of the Army, Navy, and Air Force—to protect pipelines in the Niger Delta. This was the Kinetic State attempting to impose order through superior firepower. Despite billions of dollars in funding and the deployment of advanced military hardware, oil theft metastasized into an industrial-scale enterprise.
The failure was structural. The Imported forces were ineffective for several reasons:
Information Asymmetry: The military units were rotated frequently and lacked deep knowledge of the complex mangrove topography. They could not distinguish between a fisherman and a bunkerer.
Agency Problems: Without local loyalty, the imported forces were easily compromised. The Code of Silence in the creeks meant that the military was often the last to know about a breach, or worse, became complicit in the theft network.
Hostility: To the local communities, the JTF represented an occupying army protecting Abuja's Oil. This fueled a sentiment of resource nationalism that legitimized theft as reclaiming what is ours.
By 2022, the situation had reached a nadir. Nigeria’s oil production crashed to roughly 1.0 million barrels per day (bpd), a historic low that threatened the fiscal solvency of the Federation. The Clarity Tax had become absolute—production was shut in, terminals were dry, and the majors were divesting.
In a move that shocked the orthodox security establishment but aligned perfectly with the Dangote Doctrine, the Federal Government executed a strategic pivot. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) awarded a massive pipeline surveillance contract—valued at N48 billion per year—to Tantita Security Services.
The critical variable was the leadership of Tantita: Government Ekpemupolo, widely known as Tompolo. Tompolo was the former Supreme Commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the very group that had waged an insurgency against the state in the mid-2000s.
This was the Backward Integration of security. Instead of fighting the agitator, the State hired him. Tompolo did not import security guards from Lagos or Abuja. He recruited the very youths who knew the creeks—the same demographic that had historically engaged in illegal bunkering and militancy. He formalized them. He converted the Swarm of potential saboteurs into a structured surveillance network.
The results of this integration were immediate, quantifiable, and historically significant. The shift from State Force to Community Force yielded a dramatic reversal in the sector's fortunes:
Production Surge: Crude oil output rebounded from the abyss of ~1.0 million bpd to ~1.7 million bpd by 2024. This recovery was driven directly by the reopening of pipelines like the Trans-Forcados, which had been previously inoperable due to relentless vandalism.
Theft Reduction: The efficacy of the Tantita model is evident in the theft statistics. Daily crude oil losses dropped to a 16-year low of 9,600 bpd in July 2025. Contrast this with the peak of 102,900 bpd in 2021—a reduction of 94.57%. This is not a marginal improvement; it is a total system reset.
Asset Recovery & Intelligence: In less than two years, Tantita operatives discovered illegal tap points and pipelines that had operated undetected by the military for nine years. One notable discovery was an illegal 4km pipeline connected directly from the Forcados terminal to the sea. They also apprehended high-profile vessels like the MT DEIMA while loading stolen crude. These discoveries were made possible not by radar, but by Human Intelligence (HUMINT)—the eyes and ears of the community.
The Tantita Model proves that Local Intelligence (HUMINT) is the superior form of surveillance in asymmetric environments. The community always knows. They know who is stealing. They know where the illegal pits are dug. They know when a stranger enters the territory. And they want to know you. Under the Import Model, this knowledge is withheld or used against the operator. Under the Tantita Model, this knowledge is the product being sold.
For the mining capital allocator, the lesson is stark: You cannot defeat a swarm with a sniper. You must absorb the swarm. If a former agitator can secure the nation's most critical hydrocarbon assets better than the Navy, then the Illegal Miner in Zamfara or Osun can secure the gold concession better than the Police. The Green Marshal concept is simply the Tantita Model sanitized and adapted for the solid minerals sector. It turns the Poacher into the Gamekeeper, aligning the financial interests of the potential threat with the security of the asset.
(Separate strategic dossier available: THE TANTITA PARADOX: Why Non-State Actors Are the Future of Asset Security).
To operationalize the Dangote Doctrine in the solid minerals sector, The Mohgix Institute proposes the creation of the Green Marshal Corps. This is not a standard security guard force. It is a formalized, paramilitary environmental and asset protection unit recruited entirely from the Swarm of artisanal miners and local youth.
The deployment follows the Mohgix Protocol, a methodology adapted from Palantir Technologies’ Forward Deployed operational model. This protocol emphasizes embedding technical and strategic resources directly into the operational theater to solve problems at the source.
Step 1: Mapping (The Forward Deployed Risk Analyst - FDRA)
Before a single boot hits the ground, the concession holder must deploy Forward Deployed Risk Analysts (FDRAs). Unlike traditional risk consultants who write PDF reports from London or Abuja based on open-source intelligence, the FDRA physically embeds in the host community.
Objective: Construct the Ontology of the local power structure. The FDRA must decipher the Human Terrain.
Methodology: The FDRA conducts a deep-dive sociological mapping. Who controls the artisanal miners? Is it a local Chief, a sponsor from the city, or a youth leader? Who are the nodes of influence? Where does the illegal gold flow?
Palantir Logic: Just as Palantir’s Gotham platform maps data points to objects (e.g., Terrorist, Weapon, Location), the FDRA maps community members to Roles (e.g., Sponsor, Digger, Gatekeeper, Agitator). This eliminates the Strategic Void and identifies exactly who must be absorbed to neutralize the threat. The goal is to identify the Command and Control structure of the informal sector.
Step 2: Recruitment (Converting the Swarm)
Once the mapping is complete, the concession holder announces a General Amnesty and Recruitment Drive. This is a critical psychological pivot.
The Offer: The narrative is simple: Stop digging illegally. Stop risking tunnel collapses for meager returns. Stop running from the police. Join the Green Marshal Corps. Receive a steady salary, a uniform, and a pension.
Target: The recruitment targets the Vectors of Violence—the young men currently digging illegal pits or manning roadblocks. These are the individuals who possess the kinetic capacity to disrupt operations.
Psychology: We trade Precarious Autonomy for Formalized Status. We do not disarm them of their dignity; we upgrade it. We turn the Illegal Miner into a Site Ranger. This co-opts their identity, shifting their allegiance from the illegal syndicate to the corporate entity.
Step 3: Formalization (The Gravel Road Strategy)
We do not wait for a perfect system. We apply Palantir's Gravel Road Strategy—immediate, functional implementation that solves acute pain points.
Uniforms & Identity: Uniforms are psychological armor. They confer authority and belonging. A boy in a Green Marshal uniform is no longer a thug; he is an officer of the mine. This visual transformation is essential for shifting community perception.
Training: The curriculum focuses on Environmental Remediation, Health & Safety, and Perimeter Surveillance. They are trained to reclaim the land they once degraded. This training provides transferable skills, further integrating them into the formal economy.
Payment Structure: Salaries must be paid directly to the individual bank accounts of the Marshals. The concession holder must bypass local chiefs or middlemen to prevent agency capture. If the money flows through a Chief, the Chief retains the power. If the money flows directly to the Marshal, the Marshal’s loyalty belongs to the Mine. This ensures the Rank-and-File are beholden to the asset, not the local power broker.
Step 4: Deployment (Environmental Remediation & Asset Protection)
The Green Marshals are deployed with a dual mandate that serves both the operational and ESG goals of the concession holder:
Environmental Stewardship: They are tasked with filling in illegal pits, planting trees, and monitoring water tables. This fulfills the Green component, making the mine compliant with environmental regulations and ESG standards. It visually demonstrates to the community that the mine is a force for restoration, not just extraction.
Asset Protection (The Human Perimeter): They patrol the concession. Because they are of the community, they know every path, every burrow, and every potential intruder. They become the Human Sensor Network for the mine.
The Tantita Effect: Just as Tantita operatives reported illegal vessels because their livelihood depended on the contract, Green Marshals will report external illegal miners because their salary depends on the mine's solvency. The community becomes the immune system of the asset. The Swarm that once attacked the mine now surrounds it as a protective layer.
The transition to the Green Marshal model is not merely a strategic imperative for security; it is the most efficient pathway to regulatory hegemony. In the Game of Stakes, compliance is not a burden; it is a weapon. We utilize Legal Lawfare to turn regulatory requirements into a competitive moat that displaces rivals and cements the concession holder's position.
The legal foundation for the Green Marshal Corps lies in Section 116 of the Nigerian Minerals and Mining Act (2007). This section mandates the Community Development Agreement (CDA). It states that the holder of a Mining Lease must conclude a CDA with the host community that ensures the transfer of social and economic benefits prior to the commencement of operations.
The Weaponization: Most companies view the CDA as a checklist item—a document to be signed and forgotten, often involving the construction of a token borehole or a classroom block (CSR). This is a wasted opportunity. The Mohgix Strategy integrates the Green Marshal Corps into the core text of the CDA.
The Argument: Employment is the ultimate economic benefit. By employing 500 youths as Marshals, the mine fulfills its Section 116 obligations more effectively than any charitable donation. The Green Marshal Corps becomes the living embodiment of the CDA. When the Minister of Solid Minerals reviews the concession, the presence of a formalized, employed community force serves as irrefutable proof of compliance. This protects the license from revocation and positions the company as a model operator in the eyes of the Federal Government.
The geopolitical landscape of mining is shifting. European markets are closing to dirty minerals. The EU Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) and associated supply chain due diligence laws require importers to prove that their minerals are sourced responsibly, transparently, and without human rights abuses. This creates a high barrier to entry for African minerals entering the EU.
The Audit Shield: The Green Marshal Corps provides the perfect narrative and data stream for ESG traceability.
The Narrative: We do not just extract Lithium; we employ the local community to rehabilitate the environment. This narrative is highly attractive to European OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) who are under pressure to decarbonize their supply chains socially as well as environmentally.
Traceability: The Green Marshals, equipped with GPS trackers and reporting tools (part of the Palantir/Mohgix tech stack), provide immutable data on site security and environmental compliance. This data acts as an Audit Shield, establishing a presumption of conformity with EU standards. It proves that the site is secure, that labor is formalized (not forced or child labor), and that environmental monitoring is active. It turns the social strategy into a premium export product, allowing the concession holder to command a higher price for their clean ore.
The Accounting Failure: Historically, mining companies have treated community engagement as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)—an operating expense (OpEx) that vanishes from the balance sheet the moment it is spent. This is a capital allocation error. It treats the security of the asset as Charity rather than Infrastructure.
The Asset Conversion Mechanism: We propose a radical restructuring of community spend leveraging International Accounting Standard (IAS) 38. We move from Goodwill (which cannot be capitalized because it lacks control) to Contractual Rights (which are assets).
The 3-Step Capitalization Process:
Entity Formation (The Container): The mine does not negotiate with a nebulous crowd. It negotiates with a Corporate Entity. Under the Dangote Doctrine, we incorporate the Green Marshals into a formal Community Mining Cooperative. This satisfies the IAS 38 requirement for an asset that is Identifiable.
The CBA Instrument (The Control): The mine enters into a legally binding Community Benefit Agreement (CBA) with this Cooperative. Crucially, this agreement includes Performance Clauses: the Cooperative is paid only if asset integrity is maintained. This transforms volatile sentiment into a controlled legal instrument, satisfying the IAS 38 requirement for Control.
Asset Recognition (The Value): Once the CBA is signed, the costs incurred to establish this peace—the Operation Onyx Diagnostic, the Legal Structuring Fees, and the Community Mapping Costs—are no longer Expenses. They are reclassified as Directly Attributable Transaction Costs for the acquisition of a Strategic Intangible Asset.
The Financial Result:
Old Model: $1M spent on Community = $1M Loss on P&L (CSR).
Mohgix Model: $1M spent on Community = $1M Intangible Asset on Balance Sheet (amortized over the life of the mine).
Conclusion: We do not just secure the mine physically; we secure the valuation financially.
Peace is no longer a cost. It is Capital.
The era of the Fortress Mine is over. In the asymmetric theater of African resources, the higher the fence, the greater the target. The Import Model of security has failed, leaving behind a legacy of conflict, lost capital, and sovereign insolvency.
The Dangote Doctrine teaches us that Dependency is Risk. Relying on imported sugar was a risk; relying on imported security is a risk. The Sovereign Capital Allocator must own the means of protection just as they own the means of production. They must backward integrate into the human capital of the host community.
The Tantita Model teaches us that The Poacher is the best Gamekeeper. Security is not a product of kinetic force; it is a product of incentive alignment. When you align the financial interests of the Swarm with the solvency of the Asset, you create a security architecture that is self-healing and antifragile.
The Mohgix Diagnostic:
The Mohgix Institute calls upon Concession Holders and Capital Allocators to initiate the Mohgix Diagnostic. We will deploy the Forward Deployed Risk Analyst (FDRA) to audit your current Clarity Tax. We will calculate the Shadow P&L of your conflict—the cost of every blockade, every stolen liter of fuel, every day of downtime—and map the specific pathway to Backward Integrating your security.
Security is not a guard dog. It is an ecosystem.
The Concession Holder who understands this will not just survive the coming resource cycle; they will command it.
End of Brief.
The Invisible CapEx of Social Friction
The data from the mining sector reveals a hidden balance sheet item: The Invisible CapEx. While engineers calculate the cost of excavators and crushers, the Clarity Tax eats into margins through unquantified downtime. A blockade by youths costs a mine approximately $20 million per week in lost value (NPV terms) for major projects. By failing to integrate the community, mining companies are effectively choosing to pay this tax in perpetuity. The Green Marshal Corps is not an added expense; it is a CapEx Swap. The company swaps the variable, high-risk cost of conflict (MOPOL stipends, shutdown losses, sabotage repairs) for the fixed, managed cost of wages (Green Marshals). Financial modeling suggests that the Wages are significantly lower than the Tax, yielding a higher Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and stabilizing the asset's valuation.
The Geopolitical Hedge
The Green Marshal strategy also serves as a potent geopolitical hedge. As Russia (via the Wagner Group) and China deepen their influence in African mining through State-Capture models that often ignore community rights, Western capital is retreating due to rigorous ESG concerns. The Mohgix Strategy offers a Third Way—a localized, democratic security model that satisfies Western ESG requirements (via the Green Marshals' environmental stewardship role) while maintaining the ruthless efficiency required for African operations. It positions the Concession Holder as a partner of the People, insulating the asset from the rising tide of anti-colonial or anti-foreign sentiment that often fuels resource nationalism and expropriation threats.
The Data-Sovereignty Nexus
By utilizing the Palantir-style MineOS, the Green Marshal Corps becomes a data-gathering engine. Every patrol log, every environmental report, and every incident response generates a data point. This creates a Digital Twin of the social environment surrounding the mine. Over time, the Concession Holder possesses more intelligence on the local terrain—demographics, sentiment, movement patterns—than the host government itself. This Informational Superiority is the ultimate leverage. In negotiations with the State, the Concession Holder can demonstrate that they are the guarantors of order in the region, making their license politically untouchable.
Dangote Backward Integration: (Investments >$700M, 700k MT target, Job Creation, FX Savings, Numan & Tunga sites).
Tantita Security (Tompolo): (Oil production rise to 1.7M bpd, 94% theft reduction, Discovery of 9-year illegal lines, MT DEIMA arrest).
Nigerian Mining Act & CDAs: (Section 116 mandates, Statutory obligation, Alake's enforcement).
Palantir Methodology (Operation Onyx): (FDE Model, O&M Loophole, Legal Lawfare, Ontology, MineOS).
EU CRMA & Traceability: (Supply chain audits, Recycling targets, ESG compliance, Audit Shield).
Clarity Tax & Mining Conflict Costs: (Concept of Clarity Tax, Cost of conflict estimated at $20M/week).
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Authored by: Muhammad Idoniwako (ORCID: 0009-0008-3158-3479)
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Formal Citation: Idoniwako, M. (2026). The Dangote Doctrine: Backward Integration of Human Capital — Strategies for the Concession Holder and the Capital Allocator. The Mohgix Institute (Natural Resources Practice). DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18115923
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