The Federal Government will now deploy
all the four International Radio Monitoring Stations (IRMS) across the
country to counter “illegal radio broadcast” by Boko Haram, the Niger
Delta Avengers and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the Minister
of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has said.
The IRMS facilities are located in Azare
in Bauchi State, Gusau in Zamfara State, Ipaja in Lagos State and Ogoja
in Cross River State.
Shittu in a statement Wednesday by his
media aide, Victor Oluwadamilare, said the FG is in the process of
rehabilitating the moribund IRMS and would thereafter deploy them to
counter any radio or internet broadcast capable of undermining the
country’s national security.
He said the IRMS are “strategically
located in various parts of the country as security surveillance to
monitor radio broadcast activities, so as to guide against illegal use
of the radio frequency airspace for unauthorized broadcast by proscribed
groups, political and ethnic motivated dissidents.”
He further said: “The Federal Ministry
of Communications has adequately appropriated for rehabilitation works
on the IRMS facilities across the country in the 2016 Federal Government
budget and has consequently warned against any illegal occupation and
acquisition of any fraction of land on which these infrastructures are
located.”
Credit: DailyTrust
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