Senate: Legislation on Closure of Telcos’ Cell Sites Not Necessary

Chairman, House Committee on Federal Road Safety Commission, Hon. Abubakar Yunusa has said that the best approach to the indiscriminate closure of telecoms cell sites across the country by government agencies was conflict resolution.

According to him, issues such as the indiscriminate closure of telecoms cell sites would be best handled by the Senate Committee on Conflict Resolution, and not through legislation.

Incessant and indiscriminate closure of telecoms cell sites by some government agencies have been a source of concern for telecoms operators as the situation is currently affecting service quality in some locations that are connected to the affected cell sites. The most recent of them all, was the closure of over 100 cell sites in Ogun State, belonging to telecoms operators and infrastructure collocation companies that acquired most of the telecoms cell sites that hitherto belonged exclusively to telecoms operators.

Yunusa told THISDAY that enacting laws on the issue would not address it in an amicably way.
He therefore advised telecoms operators to rather report the matter to the Senate Committee on Conflict Resolution, to address it. He said the committee is open to members of the public and had resolved individual and collective issues concerning Nigerians in the past.

THISDAY, October 5, 2017

 

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