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Udora Orizu in Abuja
The House of Representatives yesterday said there was no time at its Wednesday’s plenary that a motion calling for the resignation of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Pantami, was treated or shut down.
This is coming as human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), said Pantami remained unfit to oversee critical digital and telecommunications agencies of government because “his antecedents are quite worrisome”.
At the plenary yesterday, Hon. Ahmed Jaha from Borno State, said the Speaker, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila did not shut down a motion brought by the Minority Leader, Hon. Ndudi Godwin Elumelu, on Pantami.
Isa Pantami: The Leopard And Its Unchanging Spots By Chief Mike Ozekhome
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Mallam Isa Pantami is no ordinary Nigerian. He is a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Pantami is also no ordinary Minister. He is charged with the sensitive portfolio of Communications and Digital Economy. Before his ministerial appointment, he had headed the very sensitive and delicate position of Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency. As Minister, Pantami oversees the critical agencies of NCC, NITDA, NIPOST, NIGCOMSAT and GALAXY BACKBONE. In this digitalised world, Pantami by his office has access to Nigerians’ private communications, NIN, identities, etc.
Isa Pantami: The Leopard And Its Unchanging Spots By Chief Mike Ozekhome
By the way, where was the DSS which was supposed to screen Pantami before his name was sent to the Senate?
by CHIEF MIKE OZEKHOME, SAN, OFR, Ph.D
Apr 22, 2021
Mallam Isa Pantami is no ordinary Nigerian. He is a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Pantami is also no ordinary Minister. He is charged with the sensitive portfolio of Communications and Digital Economy. Before his ministerial appointment, he had headed the very sensitive and delicate position of Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency. As Minister, Pantami oversees the critical agencies of NCC, NITDA, NIPOST, NIGCOMSAT and GALAXY BACKBONE. In this digitalised world, Pantami by his office has access to Nigerians private communications, NIN, identities, etc.
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Human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), says the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, is unfit to oversee critical digital and telecommunications agencies of government because his antecedents are quite worrisome.
Ozekhome, in a statement titled, ‘Isa Patami: The Leopard And Its Unchanging Spots’, said though the communications minister recently renounced his radical pro-Taliban comments, he hasn’t really changed as a “fanatic, fundamentalist and supporter of extremist Islamic sects”.
“Has he really changed? What has changed? Can a leopard ever change its spots? Ozekhome asked.
The senior advocate said last month, Pantami contracted an Islamic TV to cover a Federal Government event. He said, “In saner climes, Pantami should have resigned immediately without more. Or be sacked forthwith. Lifting the veil off his purported transformation or assumed transfiguration is so easy when viewed against the background of h