The preferred bidder of NITEL/ Mtel- NATCOM Consortium, has pledged to turn around the conglomerate in the shortest possible time.
Chairman of the Consortium, Dr. Olatunde Ayeni who made the pledge in Abuja on Monday, at the signing of the Assets Sale Agreement and Issuance of Offer Letter to the preferred bidder by the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, said the organisation still had potentials to become the national carrier.
Ayeni assured that the consortium had the capacity to revamp NITEL/ Mtel and transform it to a leading telecommunications outfit in the country, adding that with the signing of the transaction documents, the process of revamping the organisation has commenced.
He recalled the previous failed attempts to sell the enterprise and maintained that the current effort would not be in vain as the consortium was determined to break the jinx.
“We pledge to make NITEL/Mtel come alive again to the delight of the BPE that had unsuccessfully in the past tried to sell the enterprise and to the good of Nigerians who will be employed and afforded another service provider in the telecoms market”, he added.
Ayeni described BPE as one of the few government agencies that remained transparent, meticulous and executes its assignments diligently.
Earlier, the Director General of the BPE, Mr. Benjamin Dikki, said that given the zeal and calibre of the owners of the consortium, he was confident that the consortium would pay the bid price and make NITEL/ Mtel work again.
He said: “I believe we have the right group to turnaround NITEL/M-tel and we believe without any doubt in their ability to turnaround the fortunes of NITEL”
Source: Nationalmirroronline
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