Lagos Assembly Approves Unification of Fibre Infrastructure, Connectivity for Telcos

IN its bid to unify the telecommunications cables in the state, the

Lagos State House of Assembly has approved the request of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for a Unified Fibre Infrastructure and Connectivity Project under the state’s PublicPrivate Law.

The project is being handled by Messrs Western Telecommunications And Engineering Services Metro Limited.

The approval was a sequel to the report of the House Committee on Public-Private Partnership, PPP, presented by the Chairman of the Committee, Mr. Lukmon Olumoh representing Ajeromi/Ifelodun 1, during plenary last week. Olumoh, however, revealed that the project was about laying of fibres by the concerned company and that it had nothing to do with 5G or Coronavirus.

“There would be a singular cable for all of the telecoms companies. It is about a fibre network, it has nothing to do with 5G at all.

We have been burying cables all around; it is the same cables that they want to bury. We just want to unify the cables”, he noted. In a letter signed by Governor Sanwo-Olu on the project and read on the floor of the House during by the Speaker, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, who committed it to the Committee on PPP, for scrutiny before the ratification of the House.

The letter was titled; “Request For Ratification by the Honourable House Of Assembly of the Lagos State Unified Infrastructure And Connectivity Project.”

The committee, according to Olumo, deliberated on the matter by inviting the Office of Public-Private Partnership, OPPP, with some of their officials and the concessionaire.

The report, Olumo stated would involve the deployment of unified fibre infrastructure for carrying telecommunications cables and other wired infrastructure to support operators of telecommunications and other relevant utilities, as well as provide infra and Connectivity requirements for Lagos State.