The Federal Government will soon release a master plan for telecommunication industry in the country.
According to the Communications Minister, Barrister Adebayo Shittu, “Our responsibility is to ensure that we have best operating laws for the telecommunication industry. Within the next 3 to 4 weeks ,we shall come up with the master plan for the telecommunication sector”.
Shittu who revealed this at a civic reception organised in his honour by Oke-Ogun indigenes on Saturday, in Saki, Oyo maintained that his mandate as Communications Minister is to ensure that Nigerians enjoy the best of telecommunication services, assuring that he would not deviate from the mandate .
He stated that the telecommunication sector is a better alternative to oil in terms of generation of revenue for the country, noting that if the sector (telecommunication)is fully explored, it could provide jobs for the teeming Nigerians.
Barrister Shittu said people should feel free to offer him advice and prayers to make him succeed, declaring that “I did not offer money to anybody to secure ministerial appointment, so I won’t steal government money and nobody needs to pay any money to see me.”
Chairman of the occasion, Chief Gbade Alabi, thanked the federal government for Barrister Shittu’s appointment, urging people to be moderate in their demands from him (Barrister Shittu).
He equally counselled the minister to see to the development of Oke-Ogun area of Oyo state generally.
The reception was attended by both the high and low from the state including the state Deputy Governor, Otunba Moses Adeyemo and traditional rulers, majorly from Oke-Ogun area of the state.
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