MTN FINE: House of Representatives insist on full payment

 The House of Representative  Committee on Telecommunication has disagreed with the NCC on the reduction of the N1.04trillion fine imposed on MTN for non deactivation of unregistered sims on their network.
Speaking at a meetng with the Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu and officials of NCC the committee chairman Hon Sajeed Fijabi maintained MTN must pay the full fine
 “There is nowhere in the law that says there is room for reduction. If you are reducing this now, what will happen to Glo and others? I see MTN going to court every time as a way to circumvent the law. In the US, British Petroleum paid the full fine for the oil spill (in the Gulf of Mexico).

On the minister putting negotiated reduction from N1.04trillon to N780billion at the door step of the Attorney General of the Federation Abubakar Malami.
The Committee chairman said, “Somebody is not allowing you to handle this matter the way you should. After you had imposed the fine, somebody is negotiating and reducing it. You imposed the fine, you should take the lead in negotiations, but now you are being sidelined.
“You imposed the N1.04 trillion fine, and we at the National Assembly have already projected that amount as part of federal government’s revenue.”