Dino Melaye, Chairman House Committee on Information and National Orientation said yesterday at a press conference that the committee had turned down an importation of analogue electronic equipments by the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), saying that the importation contravenes the government's policy of digitalisation of electronics.
"Digital equipment enhances e-governance because it is easier to transmit information through digital methods thereby making Nigeria part of the global village. A typical example of such is the intra-net and internet facilities", he added.
Melaye said that companies importing or manufacturing analogue electronic equipments should wind up their operations and said that the products in the market should be classified as analogue or digital.
He said that the Consumer Protection Council (CPC) and Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) have been informed about the ban, adding that the ban does not need any law since its government's policy to stop analogue transmission by the year 2012.
"Digitalised security equipments such as CCTV, spy cams, and metal detectors, to a reasonable extent, has reduced crime rate to barest level in our communities" he said.
Melaye also said that the Nigeria Custom Service (NSC) is mandated to regulate the importation of electronics into the country.
Melaye also said that most state broadcast outfits are digitalise but regretted that their transmitters are analogue.
"Five years is enough to replace them. Most of them have digital studios and equipments but our worry is their transmitters which, as I said, should be replaced before 2012," he added.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Tashikalmah Hallah
Quelle/Source: AllAfrica, 05.12.2007
