Several media companies in Nigeria have lost their licenses after defaulting in the payment of their financial dues.
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) revoked the licences because fees were not paid within the mandatory 60-day window.
NBC Director General Is-haq Modibbo, who stated this yesterday
added that 120 licences that were paid for but which did not go on air
within the mandatory two-year period are soon to be cancelled.
Modibbo, who addressed a news conference in Abuja, gave a deadline
of end of this month to stations owing the commission a cumulative
amount of N5 billion, to pay up their fees or lose their licences.
He said: “Over the past two weeks, I gave a directive that the
licences of 54 companies that were issued licences but had refused to
pay their fees within the mandatory 60-day window,be revoked.
“Those licences are revoked. There is another list of over 120
licenses that were paid for within the mandatory period but were unable
to come on air, within the mandatory two years; they are also being
processed for revocation. And they will be revoked! Frequencies cannot
be held indefinitely by individuals.
“At our stakeholders’ conference with broadcast organisations, I
informed stations of a persistent pattern of refusal to pay licence
fees. Stations around Nigeria owe the NBC over N5 billion. Even the
statutory act of informing NBC, six months before expiration of licenses
and signification of intention to continue as licensees is willfully
ignored by stations.
“License fees are in arrears; there is no plan by many of these
stations to pay; while some even have the temerity to write NBC, the
regulatory institution, that the amount they are obliged to pay is too
much, consequently, they then tell us how much they are willing to pay,
and even adding the time they are going to pay such sums that they have
decided to pay.”
He warned that cases where some private station owners use
political connections with the top most political leadership in the past
to get illegal and undue favours that run contrary to the NBC Act and
the Nigeria Broadcasting Code would no longer be condoned.
“We are delighted that Nigerians are investing in setting up
radio and television stations; they create jobs; open up accesses for
content producers to showcase talents and are contributing to national
development. But no one has a right to hold on to allocated frequencies
indefinitely, when the resource itself is finite and there are other
people waiting and ready to make use of those frequencies,” he said.
He said June 2017 deadline remained sacrosanct on Digital Switch
Over (DSO). On Digital Switch Over (DSO) launched on December 22, 2016,
Kawu said 251, 447 STBs were sold in Abuja.
“In the same period, 145, 357 boxes were activated; our call center received a total of 325, 028 calls in the same period.
“The next phase is our plan for the six states that we have
chosen to switch on. As I address you today, Pinnacle Communications
Limited has commenced the installation of the facilities for Kaduna. I
was there to inspect the work being done at the weekend.
“Our colleagues can go to the site on Rabah Road, in Kaduna to
verify that work is advancing very rapidly there. They have also
concluded plans for Delta and Gombe states, while the second signal
distributor, ITS, will similarly mobilise into Kwara, Enugu and Osun
states,” he added.
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