CGN
URGES PRESIDENT BUHARI TO PROBE PANTAMI OVER UPROAR WITH ABIKE DABIRI
The
Computer Guild of Nigeria has berated Sheikh Pantami, the Minister of
Communications and Digital Economy in Nigeria over uproar with Abike
Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerians in Diaspora
Commission.
Earlier
this week, Abike Dabiri-Erewa exposed how the Minister of Communications and
Digital Economy, Ibrahim Isah Pantami, allegedly chased her staff away from
their office at the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, with armed men and
locked up their personal items.
The
Computer Guild of Nigeria (CGN) in a statement by the National President of the
organization, Wole Adedoyin described Dr. Sheik Pantami as a jobless and
unserious minister and therefore urged President Muhammadu Buhari to probe his
latest action.
According
to the Statement, “Since the outburst of Covid-19 Pandemic in Nigeria, We’ve
not seen any positive contributions of the Ministry of Communications and
Digital Economy headed by Sheik Pantami in containing the Virus. With despair
lingering and the world in disarray, had it not been for effective and advanced
technology solutions, China would have been staring at an unmanageable crisis.
China illustrates this case. By mustering resources at its disposal and
deploying the latest technology, the country has mitigated the effects of the
virus to a significant extent and profiled people at risk. Today, several
affected countries are looking at the Chinese model of best use of technology to
save their populations in this race against time”
“China,
utilizing its sophisticated and expansive surveillance network for public good,
the Chinese government joined hands with tech giants Alibaba and Tencent to
develop a color-coded health rating system that is tracking millions of people
daily. The smartphone app was first deployed in Hangzhou in collaboration with
from Alibaba. It assigns three colors to people — green, yellow and red — on
the basis of their travel and medical histories. In the industrial hub of
Shenzhen, a similar software was created by Tencent.”
“Whether
a person should be quarantined or allowed in public spaces was decided based on
the color code. Citizens had to log into the app using pay wallet services like
Alibaba’s Alipay, Ant’s wallet, etc. Only those people who were assigned a
green color code could be allowed in public spheres after using the designated
QR code at metro stations, offices and other public places. There were
checkpoints at most public places where the code and a person’s body
temperature was checked. More than 200 Chinese cities were using this system.”
“In
Nigeria, nothing of such happened. Instead of using technology to contain
Covid-19 virus, Sheik Pantami is going about fighting over a Complex.”
CGN
finally called on President Muhammadu Buhari to probe into Pantami’s action and
bring any culprit into book.
