In 2007, Federal Government, through its National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), announced the Rural Information Technology Centers (RITC) project, the objective of which, the Government said, was to provide Internet access to underserved communities.
Most of the RITC's were opened across the country in 2008, costing massive amounts of money. One of such multi-million sunk Rural Information Technology Centers, located in Jahun Local Government area of Jigawa State, has suffered such neglect that its expensive equipment is gathering dust and becoming rusty.
People of the Jahun Community told SaharaReporters that the multi-million Naira center, which was commissioned in 2008, has become a major hideout for miscreants in the area who turned the center into a haven for carrying out heinous plans. Residents say the C-Band Internet facility planted in the center only functioned on the day it was commissioned.
According to the residents, none of the equipment, including the expensive solar power instrument installed in the center, functioned afterwards, although the NITDA has continued to boast of it in newspapers and its official bulletins as part of its living achievements.
The RITC in Jahun is not the only place set up by the NITDA that has gulped millions of Naira, only to be abandoned by the government.
"Within Jigawa State alone, I know of at least two other centers that are not functional and [have been] abandoned by the Agency since the inception of the projects,” Muiz observed. “ There is one abandoned in Aujara town in Jahun LGA and another one Zareku town in Miga LGA that I personally know of."
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Posted: at 16-09-2012 11:19 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
chicco77 at 16-09-2012 11:44 AM (12 years ago) (f)
ALL DIS ONE NA OUR MONEY OH
Posted: at 16-09-2012 11:44 AM (12 years ago) | Addicted Hero
dlimelite at 16-09-2012 03:37 PM (12 years ago) (f)
What a waste! Imagine what All that money coulda done for Nigeria if contributed. & how many ppl it woulda fed. Stupid politicians. Look at the Millions of money abandoned for nothing
Posted: at 16-09-2012 03:37 PM (12 years ago) | Hero
harunakoni at 16-09-2012 09:09 PM (12 years ago) (m)
Na wao 4 naija my country.in naija abandoning of project is a comon feature among us... Evry elect person has abandoned 1 or 2 projects b4 livin office.
Posted: at 16-09-2012 09:09 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming
Look at the Millions of money abandoned for nothing 
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