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PIAFo: Stakeholders Identify Obstacles to FG’s 90,000km Fibre Project

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Stakeholders in the telecoms industry have said the plan by the Federal Government to deploy 90,000 kilometers of fibre optic cables across the country will face several obstacles.

This is as they also declared that the obstacles, especially coming from state governments, might truncate the project.

The stakeholders spoke during the sixth edition of the Policy Implementation Assisted Forum (PIAFo), held in Lagos on Wednesday.

The PIAFo was a focus on Nigeria’s renewed strategic agenda for digital economy.

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They stated that the project, which is to be implemented through a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) would be an exercise in futility, if the current issue of Right of Way charges, multiple taxation and levies, which are under the control of state governments,, are not addressed.

The stakeholders at the PIAFo stressed the need to ensure the successful implementation of the project which was announced recently by the Federal Government.

The project was aimed at complementing existing connectivity for universal access to the internet across Nigeria and provide the Nigerian digital economy with the backbone infrastructure it needed.

Addressing the obstacles

Executive Director of Broadbased Communications, Mr. Chidi Ibisi, said the government’s SPV initiative is a good plan that could help bridge the country’s current digital infrastructure gap. He however added that the government would need to address current challenges.

Ibisi presented a paper on the topic, “Harmonising Nigeria’s Fibre Deployment Strategies for Effective Implementation”.

“The issues of high cost of Right of Way (RoW), destruction of fiber by road construction companies and vandals all need to be addressed for this new SPV initiative to be successful,” he said.

The Group Chief Operating Officer of WTES Projects Limited, Mr. Chidi Ajuzie, highlighted some of the challenges telecom operators face when deploying infrastructure.

He said the biggest challenge to fibre cable laying in Nigeria is the informal RoW by hoodlums in states.

“For states, a formal Right of Way is set and some states are adopting it.
But the informal side of the right of way is where the complexity has come today.

“If I’m trying to lay fibre in some communities here in Lagos, the first thing that happens is the so-called land owners (omo onile) come out. A different set of people will keep coming from one street to another and they charge you. How do we achieve adequate broadband infrastructure in this kind of situation?,” he said.

Role of state governments

Chairman of the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), Mr Gbenga Adebayo, said the state government have to take ownership for the 90,000 kilometres fibre project to succeed.

“For the project to succeed, I think the governments at sub-nationals should take ownership. This issue of state governments seeing right of way as IGR should be a thing of the past.

“We can’t talk about the digital economy on one side and the government is seeing those who provide the services as sources of revenue.

“The government has always come up with good policies, but the implantation, particularly when they are tested far afield, is the biggest problem.

“Governors will go to Abuja and say ‘in my state, I will give the right of way free of charge.’

“When you go to such a state, they may give you the right of way for zero or one Naira, but they will give you developmental levy, education levy, state impact levy, ecosystem levy.

“When you add all of these together, it is more than the Right of Way charges. So, who is playing who?” he said.

In his contribution at the PIAFo, Dr. Ayotunde Coker, Chief Executive Officer of Open Access Data Centre (OADC), stressed the need for the fibre project to be executed by the private sector, even as the World Bank is expected to fund it with up to $3 billion.

“The World Bank can put money into the government but it needs private sector partnerships as the execution engine and that’s what we’ve been pushing in Africa.

“The key thing is that when the World Bank puts the money in, it should engage the private sector. It should figure out the policies that it needs to do and enable the private sector to execute them effectively and make it as open as possible. With that, they can achieve what they are trying to achieve,” he said.

Coker further stressed that, for the success of the project, Nigeria should learn lessons of what didn’t work in the past. This, he said, was to achieve the new broadband penetration targets with the fibre range that is required.

“Meaningful broadband is what we need, rather than just a huge set of megabits per second implementation. We need superhighway fibres. We need the distribution of these backbone that allows us then to fan out,” he said.

Coker further urged state governors to be part of the project by providing an enabling environment for infrastructure roll-out. “If you are a state governor and didn’t participate in it, the state won’t grow and it’s going to impact your state,” he added.

Earlier in his opening address, the convener of PIAFo, Mr. Omobayo Azeez, said the conference was to create a midpoint dialogue platform for digital economy stakeholders across both the public and private divides.

He said the platform was to brainstorm, exchange perspectives, clear grey areas, harmonise thoughts and create a sense of collective responsibility towards accelerating our collective prosperity through technical efficiency.

The sixth edition of the PIAFo focused on Nigeria’s renewed strategic agenda for digital economy.

According to Omobayo, the new digital economy blueprint of the federal government does not only sustain existing policy directions and targets.

He added: “It also challenges us on the possibilities of attaining new frontiers in line with the theme of the summit, “Accelerating Our Collective Prosperity through Technical Efficiency”.

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