In a bid to attract more investors to the state, the Katsina state government has lifted Right of Way charges to allow telecoms companies operate smoothly.
The cost of digging the ground to lay cables is often one thing that could scare telecom investors away.
But in Katsina State, the government has waived the Right of Way, RoW, charges.
This is a cost telecommunication firms incur before laying their optic fibre in any part of the state.
Ibrahim Kaula, the spokesman for Governor Dikko Radda, announced this decision on Friday.
According to him, the move was made to woo telecom investors to the state.
Also, he said it was sequel to the signing of an Executive Order titled, “Right of Way (RoW) charges Regulation Order 2023.”
The order was promulgated in exercise of the powers conferred upon the governor by Section (5)2 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).
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“This order may be cited as the Right of Way, RoW charges (Regulation) order and shall be deemed to come into effect on December 8, 2023.
“From the commencement of the Order, charges on Right of Way (RoW) throughout the State shall be free of charge per linear metre.”
Kaula explained that the RoW charge was the levy telecoms companies paid to state governments before laying optic fibres.
According to him “normally, the RoW charge fixed by the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), is N145 let per linear meter”.
Also, he pointed out that other states charged even above that amount, but Governor Radda’s latest Order had now made it free in Katsina State.
