The House of Representatives has given main telecommunications operators seven days to seem earlier than it over poor community providers throughout the nation.
The House Ad Hoc Committee investigating the standard of telecommunications providers issued the ultimatum on Wednesday at a public listening to in Abuja.
The committee, chaired by Olumide Osoba, APC, Ogun, stated the chief govt officers of the businesses should seem unfailingly on October 28, 2026.
The summons adopted the adoption of two motions sponsored by Reps. Sunday Umeha and Afam Ogene after telecommunications firms didn’t honour earlier invites.
The committee directed the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, to make sure that all affected operators seem at 2 p.m. on October 28 at Hearing Room 447 of the New Building of the National Assembly Complex, Abuja.
It additionally ordered the businesses to submit related paperwork earlier than the listening to and clarify the persistent decline in service high quality.
The lawmakers warned that any chief govt who failed to seem might face an arrest warrant to compel their attendance.
Speaking on the listening to, Osoba stated telecommunications providers had turn out to be crucial to the nation’s economic system, extending past calls and web entry to point-of-sale, POS, transactions, monetary providers and enterprise operations.
He stated Nigerians’ rising dependence on telecommunications networks made persistent poor service a matter of great nationwide concern.
“The growing dependence of businesses, financial transactions and other essential services on telecommunications networks makes persistent service disruptions a matter of serious national concern,” he stated.
