Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari yesterday broke his public silence on the fine slammed on MTN Nigeria by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) over its failure to disconnect all improperly registered lines on the network.
According to the president, over 10,000 Nigerian lives were lost due to the delay in the disconnection of the affected lines on the MTN network.
Buhari who spoke in a joint press conference with the visiting South African president, Mr. Jacob Zuma at the presidential villa, Abuja was giving reason why the Nigeria National Communication NCC, fined the network provider.
e said: “This is the first time I will personally as a president be making a public comment about it. The concern of the federal government is basically on the security and not the fine imposed on MTN. You know how the unregistered GSM are being used by terrorists.
“And between 2009 and today, at least 10,000 Nigerians were killed by Boko Haram. That was why NCC asked MTN, Glo and the rest of them to register GSM.
Unfortunately, MTN was very, very slow and contributed to the casualties”.
