President Muhammad Buhari speaking at a joint press conference with his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma has said that telecommunications company, MTN, by its negligence aided Boko Haram in killing Nigerians in the north.
He said: “This is the first time I will personally as a president be making a public comment about it. The concern of the federal government is basically on the security and not the fine imposed on MTN. You know how the unregistered GSM are being used by terrorists.
“And between 2009 and today, at least 10,000 Nigerians were killed by Boko Haram. That was why NCC asked MTN, Glo and the rest of them to register GSM. Unfortunately, MTN was very, very slow and contributed to the casualties”.
MTN has made an initial payment of N50 billion to the Nigerian government, out of a total N780 billion fine.
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