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Association Assures On Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill
The Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) has said that the Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill would be ready before the end of the year.
Chairman of the association, Mr Gbenga Adebayo gave the assurance in an interview with The Tide source in Lagos
He said the bill was already with the National Assembly and a lot of work was already in process to ensure its readiness.
According to him, the Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson, is assisting to ensure that the bill is passed into law as soon as possible.
“A lot of work is in process.
“At least, it has more visibility than it had in the past years we have been on the campaign,’’ he said.
Adebayo said the campaign to declare telecom equipment as critical national infrastructure had been on since 2010, but was only sent to the National Assembly in 2012.
He said the enactment of the bill would make vandalism or an injury to telecoms infrastructure by any person, body or institution a criminal act.
Adebayo said there was the need to declare ICT infrastructure a national resources which should be protected just like the railway and electricity installations.