Crime & SecurityTelecommunicationFederal Government Shutdown Telecommunication Networks In 13 LGAs In Katsina

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With the continued insecurity bedeviling the Northwestern part of Nigeria, the federal government has shut down telecommunication networks in 13 local governments of Katsina State.

This comes less than two weeks when National Communications Commission (NCC) ordered telecommunication networks in neighbouring Zamfara to shut down their sites for two weeks from September 3 to enable security agencies to carry out required operations in relation to the prevailing security challenges.

The affected LGAs are Funtua, Bakori, Malumfashi Sabuwa, Faskari, Dandume, Batsari, Danmusa, Kankara, Jibia, Safana, Dutsin-Ma and Kurfi that are on the fringes of the Ruggu forest where most of the bandits are hiding.

The shutdown comes a few days after the National Communications Commission (NCC) denied a plan to shut down telecom sites in Katsina.

Recall that the NCC had refuted a trending social media story claiming that the commission had ordered telecom service providers to shut down their sites in Katsina.

In a statement, Director General (Media), Abdu Labaran Malumfashi, had said the Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of NCC, Professor Umar D. Danbatta, had spoken to the state government on the matter where he said the story was false.

The NCC VC/CEO added that the purported letter trending in the social media was a cloned version of the one sent to Zamfara State, where there is a total shutdown of telecom sites.

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)

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