The Lagos State government through
its Urban Furniture Regulatory Unit today commenced the regulation of telecommunication
mast installations in the state.
The state Commissioner for Physical
Planning and Urban Development, Olutoyin Ayinde who made this known during a
consultative forum with stakeholders in Ikeja said the essence of the
regulation was to ensure safety of lives and property and to avoid a repeat of
the February twenty-third rain storm that pulled down several masts in the
state.
Ayinde explained that the
ministry was not going to issue new specifications for mast installations, but
would ensure strict compliance of existing specifications as released by the
Nigerian Communications Commission and other regulatory bodies.
In his response, the Head of
Compliance Monitoring for NCC, Ephraim Nwokonneya said the commission has introduced
infrastructure sharing among telecoms operators in order to reduce the number
of masts in the country that is well over 6,500 in Lagos alone.
The Association of Telecoms Company of Nigeria, the
Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators of Nigeria, and telecoms operators
as well as mast builders were present at the forum.
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