New NITDA Bill: Group To Sensitise Youths On the Importance Of Nation Building

By Ladi Patrick-Okwoli

Director-general of APC Ambassadors for Good Governance, Amb. Nnamdi Inyekwe has urged other civil society groups and young Nigerians to support the new bill of the new National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, Bill in the bid to create a regulatory framework for the development and improvement of the Nigerian Information Technology, IT, sector and digital economy policies.

Anyekwe, who  made the call at the end of a stakeholders meeting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, advised Nigerians to ensure they understand the expected impact and importance of he new NITDA Bill before making themselves tool for political misadventurer whom he said would stop at nothing in misinforming the youths and civil societies against the bill which seeks to make the agency the regulator of regulators in the ICT sector and digital economy policies.

He emphasised that with NITDA as a developmental agency responsible for the planning, coordinations, monitoring and evaluation, as well regulations of the Information Technology activities in Nigeria, there was urgent need for the new bill in order to allow the agency meet the current pace of global innovations in IT sector, digital economy policies, data protections and so on.

Anyekwe, who was also a member of the APC Presidential Campaign Council (Civil Societies Directorate), reiterated that the new NITDA bill is basically meant for the best interest of our dear nation in the area Information Technology and digital economy, but that if Nigerians, especially the youths, are not sensitised on the expected impacts of the new bill, enemies of the agency can have overt reasons to practice their trade by destabilizing the good intentions of NITDA.

He further maintained that NITDA under the current director-general, Mr Kashifu Inuwa, has achieved tremendously for the growth and development of Nigeria, especially in the areas of information technology, digital economy and data protection, thereby calling on Nigerians especially the young people not to allow the enemies of the agency to destroy the efforts of the present APC administration under President Muhammadu Buhari, which is expected to be consolidated by the incoming administration led by President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

He therefore pleaded with Nigerians to "support the new bill for the interest of our collective struggle towards nation building and the new Nigerian project of the incoming APC administration of Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu and Alh. Kashim Shettima."