The Area of Representatives has given main telecommunications operators seven days to look earlier than it over deficient community services and products around the nation.
The Area Advert Hoc Committee investigating the standard of telecommunications services and products issued the ultimatum on Wednesday at a public listening to in Abuja.
The committee, chaired through Olumide Osoba, APC, Ogun, mentioned the manager government officials of the firms should seem unfailingly on October 28, 2026.
The summons adopted the adoption of 2 motions backed through Reps. Sunday Umeha and Afam Ogene after telecommunications firms didn’t honour previous invites.
The committee directed the Nigerian Communications Fee, NCC, to make sure that all affected operators seem at 2 p.m. on October 28 at Listening to Room 447 of the New Construction of the Nationwide Meeting Complicated, Abuja.
It additionally ordered the firms to put up related paperwork earlier than the listening to and give an explanation for the continual decline in carrier high quality.
The lawmakers warned that any leader government who failed to look may face an arrest warrant to compel their attendance.
Talking on the listening to, Osoba mentioned telecommunications services and products had change into vital to the country’s economic system, extending past calls and web get entry to to point-of-sale, POS, transactions, monetary services and products and trade operations.
He mentioned Nigerians’ rising dependence on telecommunications networks made continual deficient carrier an issue of significant nationwide worry.
“The rising dependence of companies, monetary transactions and different very important services and products on telecommunications networks makes continual carrier disruptions an issue of significant nationwide worry,” he mentioned.