NCC, NLRC set up committee to protect consumers
The Nigerian Communications Commission and the National Lottery Regulatory Commission have set up a committee to protect the interest of telecom consumers against malpractices that may attend mobile lotteries in the country.
The committee, which was inaugurated at the NCC Head Office in Abuja, was charged with the obligation of conveying measures to handle mutual regulatory issues, including the review of the revenue-sharing formula between Mobile Network Operators and lottery operators.
The NCC’s Executive Commissioner, Stakeholder Management, Adeleke Adewolu, who presided at the meeting comprising senior staff of the two agencies, reflected on previous engagements between the agencies.
He stated that the committee was important in order to review and update an NCC-NLRC Memorandum of Understanding, which was signed on the 6th of August 2018 but has now expired.
“We expect that the joint committee of senior members of staff in both organisations will work closely to develop a collaborative framework to progressively improve gaming service delivery for telecoms consumers and further accelerate holistic development in Nigeria’s digital economy,” Adewolu said.
According to ECSM, the commission was committed to regulatory collaboration and strategic partnerships and had carefully reviewed NLRC’s requests.
He noted that it was convinced that both organisations could conclusively address issues and other concerns that had been identified in the operation of lotteries in the telecom industry.
The ECSM reiterated that the committee was expected to articulate a new MoU to address issues around revenue sharing between MNOs and lottery operators, the need to review and recommend a workable model for addressing the needs of both organisations, and present informed recommendations to deepen regulatory collaboration between the two regulatory agencies.
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