Telecoms workers demand implementation of local content order

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By Victor Ahiuma-Young

The Private Telecommunication and Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PTECSSAN, yesterday in Lagos, called for the implementation of the President’s Executive Order on local contents in the telecommunication sector.

The President of PTECSSAN, Oladapo Moses, claimed that despite the Executive Order, there had been increase in the influx of foreigners in the sector to take over jobs Nigerians could perform with ease, lamenting that four months after the executive order was signed by President Muhammadu Buhari, there had been no blue print for its implementation.

It will be recalled that President Buhari signed the executive order on February 2 to improve local contents in science, engineering and technology components.

The order, among others, prohibits the Ministry of Interior from giving visas to foreign workers whose skills are readily…



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