The Senate has asked the Federal Government to suspend the planned deployment of the fifth-generation network in Nigeria pending the resolution of all issues thrown up by the new technology.
Adopting a motion sponsored by Senator Uche Ekwenife at plenary yesterday in Abuja, the upper legislative chamber mandated four of its standing committees, Communications; Science and Technology; ICT, and Cybercrimes, to wholly investigation the newest advancement.
She said it had become a source of concern that the deployment of the network in urban areas would lead to the installation of “a strong radiating mobile communications antenna approximately every 100 metres, producing a radiation tsunami and taking up to a 1000 fold increase in the transmission power.”
She further implored the Senate to note the concerns by some scientists and medical experts “that the emissions from 5G towers could adversely affect the health of citizens by causing symptoms like damage to the eye, antibiotics resistance as well as other physiological effects on the nervous and immune systems.”Others, who contributed to the matter, stressed that the recent statement by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr.
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