Olukoya Ogungbeje, the lawyer, who procured a court order against the directive of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, to telecommunication companies to deactivate Subscriber Identity Module cards not linked to National Identification Numbers, NINs, said the communication industry regulator is in no position to disregard the injunction.
Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of Federal High Court in Lagos had on February 22 restrained telecom operators from deactivating or barring any line or SIM not linked to their NINs in a suit filed by Ogungbeje.
On Wednesday NCC said, no going back on its decision and the February 28 deadline it gave for compliance with its Director of Public Affairs, Reuben Mouka, telling Punchng, “We are not aware of any court injunction stopping the NCC from barring lines that have not been linked with NIN.”
Ogungbeje on his part in a retort to NCC’s insistence, told the publication, “That position by the NCC is most ridiculous and shameful. The Federal Government of Nigeria and the Attorney General of the Federation are part of the suit.
“So in this instant case, the NCC is bound by the order of the court as the court restrained both the Federal Government and it agencies, including the telecom firms.”
