[size=13pt]Senate probes NITEL, NIPOST[/size]

The Senate has commenced investigations to unravel what may have contributed to the collapse of government -owned telecommunications NITEL industry in the country.
Against the backdrop of NITEL’s ordeal which started with the privatisation of the company by the Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE to PENTASCOPE, the Senate President David Mark at plenary in Abuja yesterday, ordered a probe into the collapse of the organisation, with a vow that those culpable must be prosecuted.

Giving the directive at the inauguration ceremony of the newly constituted Senate Committee on Communication yesterday, Mark, who frowned at the magnitude of the fraud that had led to the collapse of NITEL and its subsidiary agency, E-MTEL, despite attempts by government to make the public telecom industry viable through privatisation, directed the committee to unravel the mystery behind the collapse of the industry.

“Make sure that you investigate and bring to book all those who contributed in burying NITEL, NIPOST and E-MTEL .We cannot fold our hands and allow these huge investments to rot away when those who rendered these companies dead walk around our streets freely unmolested,” he maintained.

The federal government, Mark said, should put all necessary structures to reactivate NITEL, NIPOST and E-MTEL to break the monopoly enjoyed by private telecommunication providers, which he also charged to render modest services to their increasing subscribers.

The Senate president further directed the committee to step into the industry and roll out legislations that would ensure that the service providers did not take undue advantage of the masses by arbitrarily increasing the cost of their services.

He wondered why telecommunication service providers should insist that users of their services must thumb-print in the process of registering their subscriber identification module, SIM cards, stressing that the idea was not proper.

Mark, who also inaugurated Senate Committees on Capital Market , Co-operation and Integration in Africa and NEPAD, Commerce, Trade and Industry, Culture and Tourism and Defence, urged the newly constituted committees to brace up and inject a new life into the ministries and parastatals under their supervision, to meet the Transformation Agenda of the Federal government.

By Ignatius Okorocha

http://www.nigerianpilot.com/?q=content/senate-probes-nitel-nipost

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Nice work Mr Senate President. Carry on for the lord is with you, :-D:-)

1. Corruption at all levels
2. Lack of innovation
3. Ill-trained and ill-suited Staff


Fast forward to 1 year's time, nobody bothers about the recommendations or outcome of the probe, so why bother

Another opportunity to squander resources. What happens to the previous probes that have been swept under the carpet?

yes oo, a committee will be created, the committee will chop money and another committe will be created to probe the earlier committee and the new committee will still chop money and another new committee will be created to probe the new committee, whoofffff, let the cycle begin    

Probe in Nigeria means more money exchanging hands.Nothing meaningful or beneficial to the common Nigerian would come out of it.

The rich keeps smiling to the banks,the poor still crying/praying to the grave.

What happened to power probe,nnpc probe and fct probe ? Probe probe probe everytime. .wetin !

2face said! e be like say dem won tel us another story, dem won do another deceiving again dia fada wel wel,

It irritates me a lot when i hear the senate president talk like this. This former military officer used to be the governor of Niger state during the military era. He was a disciplinarian then and everybody liked him so much. Even as a governor then, he was a real gentleman, I have sat with him in church (catholic) even though i was small then. But for him to be talking like this now. i just weep for this nation. Probe! probe! probe! and yet nothing comes out of it. God help this nation

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[size=13pt]Senate probes NITEL, NIPOST[/size]

The Senate has commenced investigations to unravel what may have contributed to the collapse of government -owned telecommunications NITEL industry in the country.
Against the backdrop of NITEL’s ordeal which started with the privatisation of the company by the Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE to PENTASCOPE, the Senate President David Mark at plenary in Abuja yesterday, ordered a probe into the collapse of the organisation, with a vow that those culpable must be prosecuted.

Giving the directive at the inauguration ceremony of the newly constituted Senate Committee on Communication yesterday, Mark, who frowned at the magnitude of the fraud that had led to the collapse of NITEL and its subsidiary agency, E-MTEL, despite attempts by government to make the public telecom industry viable through privatisation, directed the committee to unravel the mystery behind the collapse of the industry.

“Make sure that you investigate and bring to book all those who contributed in burying NITEL, NIPOST and E-MTEL .We cannot fold our hands and allow these huge investments to rot away when those who rendered these companies dead walk around our streets freely unmolested,” he maintained.

The federal government, Mark said, should put all necessary structures to reactivate NITEL, NIPOST and E-MTEL to break the monopoly enjoyed by private telecommunication providers, which he also charged to render modest services to their increasing subscribers.

The Senate president further directed the committee to step into the industry and roll out legislations that would ensure that the service providers did not take undue advantage of the masses by arbitrarily increasing the cost of their services.

He wondered why telecommunication service providers should insist that users of their services must thumb-print in the process of registering their subscriber identification module, SIM cards, stressing that the idea was not proper.

Mark, who also inaugurated Senate Committees on Capital Market , Co-operation and Integration in Africa and NEPAD, Commerce, Trade and Industry, Culture and Tourism and Defence, urged the newly constituted committees to brace up and inject a new life into the ministries and parastatals under their supervision, to meet the Transformation Agenda of the Federal government.

By Ignatius Okorocha

http://www.nigerianpilot.com/?q=content/senate-probes-nitel-nipost

Grammar as usual.
Who will probe Who?
Charcoal calling kettle black!

ifyalways took the words outta my mouth

Nothing good aint coming out of it, its a bloody waste of time. At the end of it all you will hear the billions that have passed under the table. Do you remember the famous Elumelu panel?

ITS A SHAME THAT NI POST IS SO BAD THAT THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE A PLANE TO CARRY MAIL TO OTHER COUNTRIES AND INSTEAD RELY ON OTHER KIND OF INTERNATIONAL MAIL SERVICES. INSTEAD OF BEING FUNCTIONAL, THEY APPEAR DYSFUNCTIONAL.

How many times are they going to probe Nitel nah?

i am begining to feel this present national assembly is jobless

Hopeless senators.

I hope David Mark will subject himself to be questioned by this (business as usual) panel, afterall was he not the former Communications Minister that told us that telephone was not meant for the poor.

I WILL SUGGEST TO D PANEL 2 START WT MARK HIMSELF 2 GIVE ACCT OF HIS STEWARDSHIP WEN HE WAS D MINISTER OF COMMUNICATION THEN. ALSO HE SHOULD EXPLAIN 2 NIGERIANS HIS WORDS "TELEPHONE IS NOT FOR THE POOR". D PROBE IS GUD. LET HIM BE FIRST 2 ACCOUNTS FOR HIGH COST OF COMMUNICATIONS IN NIGERIA.I WILL SUGGEST TO D PANEL 2 START WT MARK HIMSELF 2 GIVE ACCT OF HIS STEWARDSHIP WEN HE WAS D MINISTER OF COMMUNICATION THEN. ALSO HE SHOULD EXPLAIN 2 NIGERIANS HIS WORDS "TELEPHONE IS NOT FOR THE POOR". D PROBE IS GUD. LET HIM BE FIRST 2 ACCOUNTS FOR HIGH COST OF COMMUNICATIONS IN NIGERIA.

probe kee, na today. Wasteful jambore to waste money

previous probe has never produce any result , nobody has ever been prosecuted on the account of his misdeed in office. power probe and the airport probe where are the reports. honestly no excitement about it it another jamboree

Hmmmm, if I may ask, where is Ndudi Elumelu, the guy who led the probe of Independent Power Projects?

Who will probe these senators? Both past and present, Seems they have the final say,