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The director normal of the Nationwide Workplace for Expertise Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP), Dr. Obiageli Amadiobi has mentioned that firms that don’t submit their expertise switch agreements to NOTAP for correct analysis and registration will quickly face stiff penalties and prosecution.
Dr. Amadiobi issued this warning when she led the highest Administration workers of NOTAP on a familiarisation go to to some Data and Communication Expertise (ICT) firms in Lagos on Thursday, June thirteenth, 2024, a press release from the company indicated.
She acknowledged that NOTAP was established to control the influx of overseas expertise by the registration of expertise switch agreements to advertise the event of domestically motivated applied sciences.
The director normal additional acknowledged that whereas the Workplace is working assiduously to make sure that Nigerian firms are provided the most effective contractual phrases in acquisition of overseas applied sciences, some firms are hiding beneath the non registration of {hardware} to avert registration of their agreements as a result of they’ve lumped up software program and {hardware} collectively thereby shortchanging the system.
She expressed the dedication of the Workplace in synergising with firms that strictly adjust to NOTAP guidelines however will guarantee stiff punishment for erring ones, the assertion mentioned.
She mentioned “Accessible data present {that a} higher share of firms in Nigeria function on imported applied sciences which run into hundreds of thousands of {dollars} with out NOTAP registration necessitated by Legislation, thereby shortchanging the Nigerian financial system.
“By legislation, it’s necessary that NOTAP must be concerned throughout the expertise negotiation stage to make sure that the Nigerian entrepreneur acquires acceptable expertise in greatest contractual phrases in order to allow rendition of companies commensurate with the cash expensed on it. ”
The brand new NOTAP boss mentioned that in keeping with the renewed hope mantra of the current administration, no firm is allowed to proceed to keep away from registration of expertise switch agreements with NOTAP. She additionally acknowledged that some operators lump acquisition of overseas {hardware} with the software program with the declare that the expertise cannot be registered since it’s {hardware}.
The NOTAP boss emphasised that such firms are doing nice disservice to the nation and will henceforth desist from such practices.
Earlier in his welcome tackle, the managing director and chief govt officer of Pc Warehouse Group (CWG), Adewale Adeyipo, expressed delight within the vitality and enthusiasm demonstrated by the brand new Director Common inside a number of days of her appointment, including that the corporate is prepared and prepared to associate with NOTAP in making certain the event of the ICT ecosystem.
He mentioned that NOTAP’s mandate and actions are huge and strategic to immediately or not directly generate over 2000 jobs yearly inside the ICT house. He added that for a nation to be globally aggressive, it should undertake one of many key parts of progress, which is ICT holistically.
He mentioned that what authorities within the developed nations think about first whereas pondering of funding is digital penetration and regretted that over time the Nation has expanded over $987.8 million US {dollars} on digital media subscription and downloads, including that this sum may have been saved for Nigerian financial progress if satisfactory help for native ICT operators had come from authorities by insurance policies.
In the identical vein, the managing director and chief govt officer of Microsoft Nigeria plc, Ola William mentioned that NOTAP had carried out remarkably properly in fast-tracking the event of the ICT sector.
She used the chance to debunk the hearsay making the rounds that Microsoft was winding as much as depart Nigeria, including that the corporate was dedicated to the sustainable progress of the ICT ecosystem, the assertion added.