Shittu tasks 9Mobile on effi cient service delivery

Stories by Ayoni M. Agbabiaka Abuja

Th e Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu has tasked the new management team of Etisalat, now 9Mobile to work hard to revive the company and get it out of debts. The minister assured them that the federal government would always give support and provide the enabling environment for all telecommunications industry to thrive. He explained that the federal government stepped in to intervene in the crisis currently faced by Etisalat to save the Nigerian employees as well as the subscribers.

Th e minister stated this in his offi ce yesterday when the 9Mobile network provider management team paid him a courtesy visit. He added that even though the company was privately owned it would be an embarrassment to the federal government to fold its hand and allow the company to die, when a lot of Nigerians have put their trust and up to 20 million Nigerians are subscribers, many were employed and Nigerian banks are stakeholders, hence the government quick intervention to rescue the company from bankers creditors whom were determined to take over. Earlier, the leader of the delegation, Mr. Boye Olusanya thanked the minister for the role he played in making sure that the company stayed above troubled water.

Boye requested the minister to also use his good office to intervene in the areas of multiple taxation, foreign exchange, Right of Way (RoW) and security of infrastructures that would ease their way of operations. Th e Post-Master General of the Federation, Mr. Bisi Adegbuyi, has said that the Nigerian Postal Service ((NIPOST) had concluded arrangements to acquire sniff er dogs to assist in detecting narcotics concealed in parcels.

The post master general stressed that the strategy is taken to curb trafficking of illicit drugs in the country through parcels. Adegbuyi, who spoke with journalists in Ilorin, Kwara state, on Friday, said NIPOST, which recently signed deals with two foreign companies for the repositioning of the Nigerian postal system, would ensure the adoption of modern technology, better workers’ welfare and improved general service delivery to intensify its fi ght against drug cartels. “I know that some smart people use our network to transport narcotics and banned substances. We are going to be alive to our responsibilities and develop our capacity. “Criminals are smart, as you block them in one area, they devise another means to try to outwit and outsmart the agency. But we will not relent in our eff orts,” he said

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