Poor telecom companies probe: Reps keep stand on CEOs look, stroll out ALTON

The House of Representatives has insisted that it has the constitutional authority to summon telecommunications operators over persistent poor service supply.

While sustaining the sooner stand, the Ad hoc committee investigating points surrounding the poor companies supply on Wednesday walked out representatives of the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) from its resumed assembly.

It insisted that the National Assembly’s constitutional oversight powers can’t be undermined by the business’s regulatory preparations or court docket challenges.

The improvement adopted the failure of chief executives of main telecommunications corporations to honour recent summons to seem earlier than the committee and personally account for the deteriorating high quality of companies supplied to the tens of millions of Nigerian subscribers.

However, the person corporations chief executives’ represented by ALTON, together with officers from MTN, Globacom, Airtel and T2 Mobile made appearances, claiming to be representing the affiliation and its member corporations.

The representatives instructed the committee that the operators had instituted authorized proceedings difficult the summons however determined to attend the assembly out of respect for the National Assembly.

However, the committee rejected their look, because the Chairman, Olumide Osoba represented on the assembly by Sunday Umeha stated, “You are not invited. You are an intruder. This will be the last warning. On no account, except you are invited, should ALTON, under any guise whatsoever, appear before this committee again.”