Youths allege sabotage of telecoms Service Bill

Nigerian Youths, un­der the umbrella of Empowerment for Unemployed Youth Initia­tive has called on the tele­communication operators in the country to desist from opposing the Communica­tion Service Bill and that of Unemployed Youth, Elderly and Indigent Sustainability Trust Fund currently before the National Assembly.

They said that the two bills, which have passed sec­ond reading in the National Assembly, have the poten­tial of generating a positive chain of reactions in the di­rection of economic recov­ery and rapid growth in the country.

Briefing Journalists on the benefits of the bills in Abuja, the National Coordi­nator of the group, Comrade Solomon Adodo, dismissed insinuations by telecoms operators that the bills were not in the best interest of the masses.

He wondered why the telecom operators begin to talk for the masses in Nige­ria when they are busying ripping Nigerians of their hard-earned money without rendering the full services expected of them.

Adodo stated that instead of negative campaign against the bills, operators in the telecommunications sector should come up clean with their tax returns to the Fed­eral Government.

“It is expected that we all play our roles in ensuring that the nation conserves the already-limited resources available on the one hand and rake in every revenue that is due to the government without placing unnecessary bottlenecks and needless opposition to laws that will help further enhance the welfare of the citizenry.”