LAGOS: The People's Democratic Party has approached a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja for an order to compel the Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC) to revoke the license of the leading service provider, MTN Nigeria Communications Ltd In the suit filed by the Osun and Ekiti Chapters of the party and the former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, they alleged that NCC has failed to protect them from unfair practices of MTN. They claimed that MTN supplied incomplete data when asked by the National Judicial Council to provide call logs containing the alleged conversations between Justice Ayo Salami and leaders of the Action Congress of Nigeria prior to Oyinlola's removal from office. “MTN deliberately frustrated the work of the panel by providing inadequate and incomplete call data records and thus manipulated same,” the statement of claim filed by the plaintiffs' lawyer, Adebisi Raimi, read. “The action of MTN to deliberately frustrate the work of the NJC panel by providing inadequate and incomplete call data records constituted gross professional and ethical misconduct.” In the statement, they claimed that MTN forwarded call data records to NJC containing only the originating component and deliberately withheld the terminating components, which left the NJC with no option but to declare the call logs as lacking in evidentiary value. It also accused MTN of deliberately misleading the NJC panel and perverting the course of justice in contravention of the Nigerian Communications Commission Act, and asked the court to order MTN to pay the sum of N150 Billion as compensation for general damages. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/Y7Ml7 Tags: License, MTN, Nigeria, Under Threat Section: Business, Latest News, Tech, West Africa
