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The Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) has submitted documents of 1,014 contracts it carried out under the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) to the House of Representatives.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports an Ad Hoc Committee of the House chaired by Rep Bamidele Salam is probing accruals and utilisation of funds in the USFP.
The Ad Hoc Committee is also investing the inability of NCC to provide a widespread available telecommunication network across the country.
The House Ad Hoc committee received the relevant documents from Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC on Wednesday.
Recall that the committee, headed by Rep Salam, had on May 9, demanded details of the projects including specific addresses and project descriptions.
However, the committee questioned the document submitted by the Commission, demanding the specifications for each of the contracts that were awarded and listed in the 91-page document submitted by NCC.
The committee pointed out that there was no specific description of what was done in the contracts and that they were couched in a manner that they would be hard to track.
It also noted that 80 per cent of the projects had no specific location.
The NCC was expected to have submitted the required documents on May 9, to enable the committee to analyse them during its next hearing, which was held today.
Salam said NCC submitted the relevant documents late hence they could not go through them.
”The committee needs to go through the documents,” he said, adding that it would get back to NCC on another date that would be communicated to them.
The lawmakers frowned at the absence of the Chief Executive Officers of telecommunication companies, who were summoned to make presentations at the hearing.