The
Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) has rejected the recent report of the Senate
Joint Committee on Finance, Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions
and Public Accounts on the abuse and mismanagement of Treasury Single Account
Regime (TSA), reports ITRealms.
NCS, an umbrella body
of industry interest groups within the Information Technology (IT) computing
professionals, made this rejection through its Information Technology Systems
and Security Professionals (ITSSP), arguing that calling for the termination of
the Remita contract at this time amounts to stoppage of TSA operation.
According to Rogba
Adeoye, the chairperson of ITSSP their rejection of Senate position was based
on the fact that despite NCS being an observer in the public hearing and indeed
they submitted memorandum after the public hearing as demanded by the
Committee.
Also, they said that CBN
Governor, Office of Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) and Committee
members commended the package REMITA for coming to support TSA when it is
needed most.
They also said that
both CBN Governor and OAGF confirmed that the payable charges is N7.8 Billion
as at time of sitting and not N25 Billion as earlier speculated by the Senators.
Insisting that the call
for the termination of the contract at this period is not right which interpreted
means stoppage of TSA operation. Maintaining that the REMITA on TSA Operation and
its intellectual property, should be encouraged and promoted to other countries
to earn Nigeria foreign exchange.
“The termination of
the contract will derail the TSA operation, undermines anti-corruption stance
of the current national government, discourages local IT innovation and kills
local content initiative of Federal Government.
ITSSP further said
that the review as related to the chargeable cost should not be in retrospect
as this discourages local IT innovation and empowerment since the contract
offers future renegotiation.
Pointing out that professional
charges as derived through CPN Acts of 1993 as gazetted was never considered in
arriving at the Committee’s costing and review of charges of REMITA per
transaction, even as REMITA is more than e-transfer and e-payment.
Therefore, ITSSP
emphasised that Remita is an indigenous software product of developed by
Nigerians for the world, hence, the contract should not be terminated but allowed
to stay as one of IT products to enhance good government service delivery and transparency.
For Adeoye, Systemspecs,
the owners of Remita, is the replica of Microsoft in the making.
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