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Social Development Group Urges Reps To Speed Up Probes On Telecom Operators – Says Nigeria Loses Over N2.tn Revenue Annually

A Non Governmental Organization(NGO) -Traders Initiative for Social Development – TISD has called on House of Representatives to speed up the process and action on the proposed panel to probe MTN, AIRTEL, 9 MOBILE, GLO and other telecommunication operator’s annually levy to National Communications Commission NCC.

In a recent press release signed by the publicity secretary of the organization, Mr Ifeanyi Nwaudunna, in Abuja

Mr Ifeanyi Nwaudunna, Publicity Secretary TISD

The NGO maintains that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has been asked to provide the information on the turnover of Telecom Operators to determine the actual levy they are supposed to pay to the Nigerian government.

According to the group, for more than a decade, Nigeria has been losing over N2 Trillion annually from the levy accurable to the country from the service providers.

The group states that telecom Operators declares what they want to the NCC as their turnover with the compromise of some few staff of NCC, such as Mr Gontor and others who is already in investigation over fraud.

TISD referenced the report from the Reps – Faleke committee, That Nigerian Communication Commission had proposed N82 billion as the revenue projection from the operating levy of the telecommunication operators submitted by the Commission against the actual expected over N2 Trillion revenue generation, if the automated system is deploys in the revenue calculation and payment, Nigeria will generate over N2 Trillion from the levy of the Telecom Operators annually.

According to the claims made by Hon Soli (APC) Katsina through a thorough research and well prepared presentation to the house committee on ICT, chaired by Hon James Faleke. Hon Soli revealed that service providers have been shortchanging the country by declaring whatever they wish as their revenue, TISD said.

In a another development, the Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof Umar Dambatta reiterated that the commission is committed engaging relevant stakeholders, both in the public and private sectors in the country and beyond in order to ensure that appropriate infrastructure and technology befitting a modern digital economic system is deployed in the country.

The group ask the reps to mandate the Nigerian communication commission NCC to implement the proposed public-private partnership initiative program to deploy the automated system to calculate and collect the levy from the Network operators to meet up with over N2 Trillion which is the expected actual and due revenue accurable to the country from the two and half percent of Licensee’s(service providers’s) net revenue for the relevant period being his gross revenue.

The NCC boss made this presentation as the keynote speaker at a panel session during two-day 2021 virtual conference and exhibition on information communication technology and telecommunication ICTEL organized by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry LCCI.

Mr Nwaudunna queries the delay and postponement of deploying an automation system that ensures adequate and due revenue from the service providers to the country.

As a matter of urgency and importance, Traders Initiative For Social Development call on the house of Representatives Committee on information communication tech (ICT) to expedite action and process on the proposed Probes on the services providers and NCC, Nwaudunna stated.

The planning of PPP public – private partnership initiative program to deploy system that will ensure due and actual revenue (levy) accurable to the country from the Telecom Operators are commiserate with their actual earnings.

Mr Nwaudunna stressed that according to the Section 3 of the NCC annual operating levy regulation provides that every Licensee that is a Network operator shall pay to the commission an annual operating level assessed at two and half percent of Licensee’s net revenue for the relevant period being his gross revenue.

According to the findings, the Telecom Operators will just declare a figure and determine what they want to pay and NCC ignorantly or compromisingly takes it and remit whatever they wish to the Federation Account.

Ifeanyi Nwaudunna reports that the service providers generate their revenue through a automated and electronic process, as key players in the information communications technology while paying Nigeria in a manual system to robbing Nigeria over N2 Trillion annually for more than a decade now.

 

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