The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Dr. Aminu Maida said the commission will embark on compliance drive next year.
The EVC disclosed this yesterday when he received the Executive of the Nigerian Information Technology Reporters’ Association, NITRA on a courtesy visit in his office
He said the Commission would be able to hold the service providers accountable to their responsibility to the customers but in a collaborative fashion, avowing to impose sanctions when necessary.
He said, “We are going to be driving very hard on that, as one of the areas that we should be held responsible; we will make sure it is transparent. I want it to be transparent so that we can drive the industry.
“I am going on compliance drive next year to make sure that we are working on the things that will help the licenses , MNOs and other stakeholders in the value chain, and we are going to hold them accountable because what you do not measure you do not hold people accountable on and there is no consequences, but in a collaborative fashion, we are going to sit down and look at the challenges and know what we can do together. I do not intend to use horsewhip.
“Quality of experience matters, in my engagement with the CEOs of telcos, I had to let them know that we need to make sure everybody get value for their money , there are challenges everywhere, whether it is EFEX, diesel, security but because of the criticality of the telecoms infrastructure. Let people complain and cry but if we sit down and cry, it means everything stops because telecom is critical.”
