Fine: FG Rejects MTN’s Out Of Court Settlement

Minister of Communications, Abdurraheem Adebayo Shittu on Tuesday announced that Nigeria loses revenue worth over $287million yearly to software piracy.

Shittu who disclosed this in Abuja at a media briefing to unveil the communications sector road map for 2016—2019, said the Federal Government would step up intellectual property protection and enforcement mechanisms to ensure the promotion of creativity in the Information and Communication Sector[ICT].


 He assured that ICT would be deployed to raise government’s revenue, reduce waste and block all leakages such as piracy and vandalisation of public infrastructure. Meanwhile, the minister has rejected the out of court settlement move initiated by MTN Nigeria over the N1.04trillion fine imposed on the telecommunications service  provider by the Nigerian Communications Commission[NCC].
 He said President Muhammed Buhari administration would take a decision soon, if the telecommunications provider fails to pay the fine. He denied that the Federal Government had accepted to settle the case out of court as stated recently by the MTN.
 While unveiling the roadmap for the ICT Sector [2016-2019], the minister said his ministry would concentrate on building ICT sector growth by improving infrastructure and quality of service, SMART government to deliver ICT and broadband penetration, and security as well as raising revenue of government and reducing waste. Other major areas of focus within the stated time-frame, according to him, include policy of innovative continuity for private sector led continuous innovation and migration to a digitally-native Nigeria through capacity, job and wealth creation.
 According to him, “The philosophy of the new thinking is aptly captioned, “Continuing Innovation and Innovating Continuity: Creating a SMART Digital Nigeria.”  “This conceptual double helix is what we sincerely believe to be the cultural DNA we need to embed to create a “SMART Digital Nigeria” to bring about the Change we seek.
 He also noted that the proposed roadmap if well implemented would create about two million jobs as well as reduce the cost of governance while making revenue generation easier.

 

Check the Daily Independent newspaper for the full story.

 

 

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