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Poor State of Telecom Infrastructure and Call for Ban on Generators
Following the poor state of telecom infrastructure and the over dependency on generating sets by government and Nigerians, the President of the Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), Titi Omo-Ettu called on members of the national assembly to pass a bill for the ban of all manners of generating sets used by public servants in their official houses without exception to anybody.Omo-Ettu who challenged the national assembly members on the continued poor state of electricity supply across the country, said if drastic action was not taken, Nigerians would continue to rely on generators and nothing would be done to improve power generation in the country.

He threw the challenge at national assembly members while delivering a paper as the guest lecturer at the 11th Distinguished Electrical and Electronics Annual Lecture (DEEEAL), organised by the Nigerian Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (NIEEE) in Lagos at the weekend. The ban, according to him, should be extended to the Presidency and all public servants at all levels of government.