PREMIUM TIMES also reviewed documents that showed that the NCC deceived and misled Nigerians by its submission.
A nongovernmental organisation, Adopt A Goal for Development Initiative, has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Nigerian Communications Commission to retract the statement made to the House of Representatives whichThe group said testimonials made by two officials of the commission – which informed why federal lawmakersin the just passed electoral bill – amounted to “gross misrepresentation” of paragraph 3, page 21 of the 2020 data report from the Nigeria National BroadBand Plan.
“Furthermore, your statement made under oath contradicts the 2021 Statistics of 3G coverage report of MTN Nigeria LTD, a major telecommunication company in Nigeria, which pegs its 3G coverage to 80.4% of the Nigeria population, as disclosed at its Annual General Meeting on 7th of June 2021,” the group added.
The report, signed by President Muhammadu Buhari, the group said, “puts 3G Coverage at 75% and 2G Coverage at more than 89% of Nigeria Population.”that “Nigeria has only 50.3 per cent 3G internet coverage of polling units in Nigeria for the transmission of election results.”
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