The problem with NITDA is vested interest

Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, professor of Computer Information System, current director general (DG) of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) often speaks of himself as a man on a burdensome mission to sanitize the NITDA and get it re-focused.

Like many government agencies in Nigeria, NITDA is often deemed to be a nest of corruption – its immediate director general, Mr. Peter Jack was sacked for graft. The agency has remained under investigative lens for a period covering no less than 10 years with anti-graft agencies sniffing for larcenies.

But Pantami is no less bother with the agency’s problem of graft than he is with the challenge of getting NITDA focused on its mandate. For many critical stakeholders, NITDA had lost focus ever since it was created or ever since its enabling law as a regulatory body was instituted by an Act of Parliament.

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