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Network Failures Cripple Businesses as Govt, MTN Stall on Kogi Agreement

By Noah Ocheni, Lokoja

Residents across kogi state are yet to find light at the end of the tunnel and may have to continue to endure GSM Network failures  as the Government and MTN management have held to their guns without deliberate effort to resolve the non compliance issues in the state.

Recall that the hardliner position by the kogi state Government and the Management of MTN, has created untold hardships for network subscribers who have bitterly lived with epileptic services for the past three weeks.

The Kogi state Infrastructural and Utility Management Compliance Agency, (KIUMCA) said it shutdown the operations of Mobile Telephone Network (MTN) for alleged non compliance with its extant laws.

Hon. Taufiq Isah, the head of the agency, said upon assumption of office at the agency, he discovered that the MTN has not been complying with the law for over two years.

For peace to reign, he said, he invited the management of the network provider for a meeting to resolve the grey areas like the kilometres of optic fibres it laid across the state.

The Director General said the network provider claimed that they had just little over 130 kilometres of fibres in the state but during a joint field operation by the officials of the agency and MTN, it was discovered that the network provider has over 400 kilometres radius of the state.

He explained that all efforts made by the agency to have an amicable resolution of all the issues against the service provider proved abortive because the MTN, according to him was not prepared to do the needful.

However, in shift reaction by a credible source,within Mtn who pleaded anonymity, because , he is not permitted to speak on the issue , dismissed the claim of kogi state government, saying , the claim of 400 kilometres of optic fibres laid by MTN was far from the truth.

To this end, business and commercial activities in Kogi State have been grounded, as the Kogi State Utility Infrastructure, Maintenance and Compliance Agency (KUIMCA) has shut down the office of a major telecommunication network provider (MTN) over alleged non-compliance with rules governing operations of Network providers in the state.

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