Otti promises internet access for all Abia communities in nine months

All communities in Abia State are to be connected to Internet Service within the next 9 months.

The state governor, Dr. Alex Otti, announced this yesterday at the Nnamdi Azikiwe State Secretariat premises at Umuahia, the state capital, while flagging off the first phase of the Umuahia Dedicated Internet Access/Wide Area Network And Managed Network Services Project (Project), saying that it promises to re-engineer efficiency and flexibility in operations and interactions within and amongst institutions, enhance policy execution, and engender a culture of outcome-oriented competition amongst civil servants.

The Project is being handled by IPNX, which has Mr. Ejovi Aror as the Group Managing Director, who said that the Project/Initiative would facilitate efficient service delivery, assuring of his Company’s commitment to providing seamless productivity, which he disclosed is essential to unlocking the full potential of any economy, with his vow to work closely with the government to ensure its success.

He said, “This partnership signals the beginning of a new chapter in the journey towards building a digitally connected, technologically advanced, and economically empowered Abia State.”

Governor Otti, in his speech marked “The Digital Transformation Journey Begins,” said that this project phase is a carefully coordinated programme of digital support infrastructure layout and integration, that will involve the acquisition and distribution of thousands of high-performance digital tools and devices across ministries, departments, and agencies of government, laying of fibre-optic cables within the precincts of State-owned public institutions, and the installation of other critical hardware infrastructure to support digital