Governor Babagana Umara Zulum Tuesday hosted officials of Mobile Telephone Network (MTN) to discuss restoration of vandalized telecommunication networks in some local government areas of Borno state.
MTN General Manager Northern Operations, Abdulhamid Hassan, visited Zulum at Borno’s liaison office in Abuja where they met Secretary to Borno Government, Alhaji Usman Jidda Shuwa and the Special Adviser and Coordinator for Sustainable Development, Partnerships and Humanitarian Support, Dr. Mairo Mandara.
The group also conducted webinar conference between Governor Umara Babagana Zulum, MTN Chief Technical Officer, Mohammed Rufai, General Manager, Regulatory Affairs, Ikenna Ikenne and Chief Corporate Services Officer, Tobechukwu Okigbo, who spoke from Lagos.
MTN informed Zulum that it has 57 sites requiring works across Borno state and would work with the state government to identify areas of priority attention from the company’s operational and budgeted plans for the remaining part of 2020 and the year 2021.
Zulum nominated Borno state Commissioner for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation as well as another official, to liaise with the MTN team towards collaborative efforts.
The governor also raised other issues with the MTN, for which the Chief Corporate Services Officer, Okigbo promised to look into and get back to the state government through the MTN foundation, an arm that executes the company’s corporate social responsibility interventions.
It will be called that Boko Haram had since 2013 serially destroyed telecommunication equipment in a number of LGs, as part of their measures to prevent communities from making rescue calls and from tipping off security agencies on the movements of the insurgents before and during attacks.
Insurgency: MTN, Borno govt move to restore 57 vandalised facilities
