Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said it will engage everybody or group that is peeved with the recent price adjustment, in order to explain necessity of the action.
The commission was responding to the threat by NLC to stage a nationwide protest on Tuesday, February 4, 2025.
Besides the planned protest by the NLC, the National Association of Telecom Subscribers, NATCOMS has also threatened to go to court, alleging that the commission ignored its letter of appeal requesting the reduction of the hike.
However, a very top NCC official said the Commission had neither received any letter from the NLC nor NATCOMS seeking clarifications or reasons for the adjustment, even though it was working seriously towards engaging and explaining reasons to everybody or group that is not comfortable with the price adjustment.
The official said: "Most of the protests against the price adjustment, including court actions and threats of it are basically out of ignorance. Most people do not understand the grave implications of what they are calling for. If they would give the commission the listening ears, they would understand we acted to save the sector and the entire economy.
" When the Nigerian Association of Nigerian Students, NANs wrote us, we invited them for a meeting and by the time we explained the processes and procedures, including the grave implications, if we didn't do what we did; they clearly understood.
"I believe every other group that would allow dialogue will also see reasons.
We are going to engage everybody, even those who are said to have gone to court already. To safeguard the economy should be more important to all than pandering to sentiments" he added.
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