The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, yesterday, justified its action for shutting down the controversial All Progressive Congress, APC SMS platform for fund raising, saying that the action of the mobile network operators in running a political advertisement for the APC wasn’t in compliance with the provisions of the NCC guidelines on the use of shot Codes in Nigeria.
►The Director Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission, Mr. Tony Ojobo, made the clarification at a press conference held at the NCC headquarters in Abuja.
►Ojobo said, the Commission did not erred at all in shutting down the SMS platform, given that the mobile network operator in question ran foul of section 3 of NCC’s guidelines, by not applying officially to the Commission for approval in accordance with section 3 of the NCC’s Act.