LAGOS – The Chief Executive Officer of Teledom Group, Mr Emmanuel Ekuwem, on Friday in Lagos, urged the Federal Government to use Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to reduce the cost of governance.
Ekuwem, a former President of the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that certain aspects of governance that were done manually should be automated.
He said that automation would help to reduce the cost of governance in the country.
According to him, automation of certain aspects of governance will ensure transparency, increase efficiency and productivity.
He explained that if productivity was increased, there would even be need for more employment of manpower.
”Given the state where we are today in Nigeria, I will not advocate that Information Technology (IT) should be used towards reducing the cost of manpower.
”It should not be used to send people back to the streets of the labour market,” Ekuwem said.
He, however, said that even as the agitation for reduction in the cost of governance continued, there was the need to know the present cost of governance.
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The former ATCON president said there was the need to know what the country was incurring cost on and find a way of eliminating it, if necessary.
”If we are wasteful, we should cut off those areas of waste. If we are too reckless in spending, then we should be much more prudent in spending. (NAN)
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