In effort
block illegal broadcast by rebellious groups across the country, the Federal
Government said it has resolved to rehabilitate all International Radio
Monitoring Stations (IRMS), warning land speculators to steer clear of IRMS
property in the country, reports ITRealms.
The IRMS
facility at Ipaja, Lagos covering the South-West geo-political zone is one of
such stations strategically located in various parts of the country as security
surveillance to monitor radio broadcast activities, so as to guide against
illegal use of the radio frequency airspace for unauthorized broadcast by
proscribed groups, political and ethnic motivated dissidents.
Special
Assistant on Media to the Hon. Minister of Communications, Mr. Victor
Oluwadamilare, said the Federal Ministry of Communications, has
adequately appropriated for rehabilitation works on the IRMS facilities across
the country in the 2016 Federal Government budget and has consequently warned
against any illegal occupation and acquisition of any fraction of land on which
these infrastructures are located.
“Because of
the strategic importance of these infrastructures, the general public is warned
against purchase or acquisition of any part of the monitoring stations”. The
IRMS facilities are located in Azare, Gusau, Ipaja and Ogoja, to monitor
broadcast activities across the country and its borders.
This warning,
he said, is coming at the heel of what the Federal Government considered as
unauthorized acquisition of part of the land on which the IRMS at Ipaja, Lagos is situated, which is currently a
subject of litigation in a suit No ID5764/14 between Oguntoyinbo Abiola, Falola
and Illo families of Ipaja, Lagos Vs the
Hon. Minister of Lands and Hon. Minister of Communications
The Ministry
unequivocally stated that the title of the land on which the Ipaja IRMS is
situated is still under litigation and pending before a competent court of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria, thereby forestalling anybody, group or family from
encroaching upon the land acquired by the Federal Government since 1971.
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