By Emeka Aginam

Following recent media report that the Federal Government is considering scrapping of Computer Registration Computer Professionals (Registration Council) of Nigeria, CPN, the Registrar of the Council, S.A. Shehu has said that the story was not true.

The Registrar, in a statement said that, “We want to state categorically that the information given in that story is totally false, untrue and a misrepresentation of facts. It is not true that government is considering or ever considered the scrapping of CPN.

“CPN is an agency under the Federal Ministry of Education duly established by law [Act No. 49 of 1993] with a very clear and unambiguous mandate to regulate, control and supervise the Information Technology profession in the country.

“CPN has been faithful to its mandate and so government is not considering scrapping it.

“The issue of salary stoppage of its staff was a misunderstanding of a circular issued by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation in 2014 which has since been corrected.”