Mr. Ngayan said this when the Inter-Agency Drafting Committee members presented the e-Transaction Draft Bill to him on Monday in Abuja. He noted that e-Transaction had been flawed by lots of errors that cannot be brought to book, because they was no regulatory law guiding it.
The State governor, Aliyu Akwe Doma, who made this disclosure over the weekend during the flag-off of the training programme for 64 local government officials selected to handle the rural telephony, voice data and internet hub-stations, called on all local government chairmen to ensure that internet facilities provided in all the councils were maximally utilised to the advantage of the people in the rural areas so that the state can join others in the current globalisation process.
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Daily Trust reported last week that the project failed in the state since old typewriters still adorn office desks, just as offices where computers were procured and supplied have no internet connectivity.
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The project was executed by Messrs Chapman Computers Nigeria Limited in conjunction with their foreign technical partners, Gilat Satcom of Israel.
Performing the ceremony yesterday at the Due Process and e-Governance Bureau office in Yenagoa, Governor Timipre Sylva, urged all those involved in the act to have a rethink or face the wrath of the law.
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