Dr. Isa Pantami

Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, has explained that security agencies were actually the ones that requested the shutdown of telecommunication services in Zamfara to curtail banditry.

The Minister clarified that the directive did not originate from his ministry and that the Federal Government did not object to the request either.

Pantami gave this clarification on Wednesday while fielding questions from State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

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