Minister accuses NASS of stalling MTN fine settlement

According to media reports, the Minister of Communications Technology, Barr. Adebayo Shittu, has accused the National Assembly (NASS) of stalling the payment of the balance of MTN's N1.04 trillion fine.

“If you are talking about MTN fine, I was at NASS platform recently. The real process, to my mind, is the fact that the National Assembly, particularly the House of Representatives, is investigating this matter.

“Those of us expected to make comments decided to withhold our comments because we know that whatever we do, will invariably be subject to the outcome of this investigation by the law makers. So for me, that is the reason why we have not yet made greater progress.

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“And as you would have seen yesterday the process of legislative investigation is still ongoing and once it is concluded I hope positively that we get things going and I think the matter will be put behind us,” Shittu said, according to Nigeria CommunicationWeek.

South Africa-based MTN Nigeria had been fined in October last year by the NCC for failing to deactivate 5 million unregistered Sim cards.