ABUJA—After touring the facilities at the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, particularly, the Museum centre, yesterday, majority of the Commonwealth ministers declared that Nigeria has enriched their knowldege on how to store information for posterity.
The tour was part of the programmes designed to end the three-day Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisations, CTO, forum which began on Monday, in Abuja.
The ministers who were taken on the tour by a group of NCC officials led by the Executive Vice Chairman, EVC, of the commission, Dr. Eugene Juwah and the Chairman, Mr. Peter Igoh marveled at how the commission had gathered and preserved living materials of every bit of Nigeria’ telecommunications history from the 50s and 60s till date.
Three of the ministers, Rebecca Joshua Okwaci of the Republic of South Sudan, Joseph Ole Musuni of Republic of Kenya and Beata Mukangabo of Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority, RURA, who spoke to Vanguard exclusively, revealed that it remained only for them to get home before replicating some of lessons they have learnt from Nigeria.
Okwaci said: “As you may know, my country only came into existence in 2011, so we are the Baby country of Africa. But attending this conference in Nigeria has opened my eyes to some of the things we need to do quickly to join, if not surpass older fellow African countries.
“The visit to the NCC museum has sparked, in me, the desire to begin now to pick the pieces of our telecommunications history together so that our future generation would know where we are coming from and where we are going to. I know that to do this could be expensive but the NCC has challenged all African countries and I want to leave this kind of legacy after my time as Minister in my newly created South Sudan
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