The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Professor Umar Danbatta, has rejigged the composition of his top management staff in a bid to put more verve to the Commission’s work for the next five years.
The move, which came, few days after Danbatta’s second five-year term renewal, by President Muhammadu Buhari, is also intended to inject new ideas to the Commissions Strategic Management ( SMP 2020-2024), which was launched on Tuesday.
Those affected in the redeployment are Director, Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Department, Mr. Efosa Idehen; Director, Public Affairs Department, Dr. Henry Nkemadu; Director, Consumer Affairs Bureau, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, and Director, Research and Development (R and D) Department, Mr. Ephraim Nwokonneya
THISDAY reports that the change took immediate effect, as Idehen has now assumed a new position as Director, Consumer Affairs Bureau, while Nwokonneya is the Director, Compliance Monitoring, and Enforcement Department.
Similarly, Adinde is the commission’s new Director, Public Affairs Department, while Nkemadu has been redeployed to the Research and Development department of the commission, where he was a deputy director before he was promoted and moved to Public Affairs department last year.
According to the sources, motivated by the new confidence in his reappointment as the EVC/CEO of the commission, Danbatta has since been taking more proactive measures to demonstrate renewed vigour and commitment to strengthening regulatory activities of the commission.
The new commitment by Danbatta is already manifesting in the launching of a new Strategic Management Plan (SMP) 2020-2024, which encapsulated the strategy the commission intended to deploy to achieve its strategic goals in the next five years, especially its mandate toward accelerating the national digital economy vision of the federal government in the next five years.
The redeployment of Efosa, who had been the chief enforcer in the commission for about five years, and had a number of the achievements under him such as the successful enforcement of the MTN’ fine to its credit, was also believed to be strategic.
