A pro-transparency Non-Governmental Organization, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has faulted the directive by the Nigerian Communications Commission that fines of over N645 million slammed on four defaulting telecom companies be paid into the NCC’s account.
In a letter sent by the organization to the hierarchy of the NCC in reaction to the public notice on the development, the rights group reminded the telecom regulator that the right beneficiaries of any financial fines imposed and received from any defaulting telecommunications services’ providers should be remitted to the accounts of the Nigerian customers who are the victims and not to the account of the regulatory body, which suffers no breach of contract since the binding contract is between the customers and service providers.
But the NCC in a written response to HURIWA by Josephine Amuwa, the Director of Legal Services of the commission on behalf of the Vice Chairman, refuted the submission of the rights group.
The NCC stated that by law the proceeds from the fines imposed on defaulting telecom service providers rather than be remitted to individual consumers/customers usually goes into the coffers of the Nigerian Government as revenue.
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