CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Communications, Senator Gil Emeka Nnaji, had told mobile network providers in Nigerian to improve o their service delivery or face being forced out of the country. The Nigerian mobile service providers popularly known as GSM which stands for the Global System for Mobile Telecommunications, have all been accused recently of not meeting up to the expectation of their customers.
Nnaji declared that the Senate was ready to put in place all the necessary legislative provisions to ensure that the GSM service providers in Nigeria do not take for granted what the masses face in terms of poor network and rural phone coverage, emphasizing that if the network providers continue in their old ways, they may be kicked out of the country.
Nnaji said this at the committee’s public hearing on the deteriorating service by GSM providers. He described the claim by the Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC that it was only MTN that had made profit since the ineception of GSM in Nigeria as lie, affirming that all the mobile network providers have made great profits from the country.
Nnaji who said that due to the huge investment of the Federal government in the industry just to ensure that Nigerians get the best service they deserve had disclosed that this note of warning was important considering the several complaints it had received as regards poor service delivery in Nigeria.
According to him, “the Senate as a responsive and socially-responsible institution, after series of interactive sessions towards addressing the lingering public outcry, subsequently decided to ascertain the level of culpability or otherwise of these network service providers on these issues with a view to advising the plenary appropriately.”
In a statement by Egbo Mon-Charles, the Public Relations to Senator Nnaji, said the NCC boss, Dr. Eugene Juwah, in his presentation disclosed that NCC had been supported by the Federal Capital Territory Administration for adequate provision of more telecommunication tower sites in Abuja in order to ensure a steadily service supply to the FCT.
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