Commission donates communication gadgets to 112 LGAs boost information dissemination
By Njadvara Musa, Maiduguri
The North East Development Commission (NEDC) has distributed modern communication gadgets to 112 Local Government Areas boost their information disseminations in the six states of Northeast.
According to the Commission, the distributed 112 Public Address System (PAS), are to facilitate information dissemination at the grassroots level.
While handing over some units of PAS, on Friday in Maiduguri to the Borno State Commissioner of Information and Security, Prof. Usman Tar, NEDC’s Managing Director, Muhammed Alkali said: “Our information dissemination intervention was done in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).”
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Alkali explained that most of the information officers from 112 local councils in the northeast, had at a recent workshop organized for them by the Commission, submitted that their public address system was critical to the timely dissemination of information to the people.
Continuing; “We’ve 112 local governments in the northeast region. Most of the information officers submitted in the questionnaire they filled at the end of the workshop, revealed that they require PAS to enhance their job.
“The JICA in partnership with the NEDC provided the information disseminations gadgets them.”
Prof. Tar, therefore, commended the commission for the support.
The information boss, like Oliver Twist, however, requested for more intervention to expand radio and communication facilities especially in remote communities and hard-to-reach areas in the state.
He lamented that most of the telecom masts in the council headquarters, were already destroyed by Boko Haram terrorists.
During the visit to the Governing Council of the Yobe State University (YSU), the NEDC boss noted that education and research for development were crucial to the implementation of the commission’s mandate.
“We take education very seriously and that was why we established an endowment fund which has been sponsoring students in the northeast medicine, nursing, engineering,” he said.
