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The federal government has insisted that MTN Nigeria must pay the N1.04
trillion fine issued against it by the Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC).
Minister of Communication, Barr Adebayo Shittu, made who known
yesterday, in Abuja, said the federal government is not letting up on
the fine.
Speaking to journalists during the opening ceremony
of the Commonwealth national cybercrime workshop 2015 in Abuja, Shittu
debunked speculation that the federal government was planning to waive
the fine slammed on the South African firm.
There have been speculations in some online
media platforms that President Muhammadu Buhari may waive the N1.04
trillion fine when he meets his South African counterpart, President
Jacob Zuma when they meet for the Forum of China-Africa Co-operation in Johannesburg later this week.
An online report on TVC news quoted the spokesman for the Department of International Relations South Africa,
Clayson Monyela, as saying that expected meeting between the two heads
of state will decide MTN’s fate regarding the fine, adding that the
government was monitoring the development with keen interest.
The minister, who stressed that the fine was slammed on MTN because of
its refusal to deactivate the lines undermines government efforts to
tackle security challenges and the war
on terror in the nation, said the federal government is committing
everything into fighting crime, especially the negative effects of
cybercrime, which includes terrorism.
Earlier the executive vice chairman of NCC, Prof Umar Danbatta, said though the deadline has expired, the fine is still receiving attention.
Danbatta said: “The fine is still receiving attention. The deadline has
expired, that we are aware. What we did was to write to them to
acknowledge the letter that have written to the commission which
admitted that they committed a
breach in the letter, they have undertaken to good regulatory behaviour
and an apology to the Nigerian people as well as well as solicitation of
leniency on the quantum of the fine, these things are still receiving
attention and we wrote to acknowledged the receipt of the letter in
order to ensure that there are no further sanctions of non-compliance on the deadline. So they not have broken any rule.”
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