The House of Representatives has told Director-General of
the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Dr. Ihekweazu Chikwe, to locate
the Chief Executive Officer of Multichoice Nigeria, operators of DSTV, John
Ugbe and test him for COVID-19.
This call was made by the ad hoc committee investigating
non-implementation of the pay-as-you-go tariff plan by satellite broadcasters
and DSTV subscription price increase.
The House Committee also asked the NCDC to, without further
delay, commence contact-tracing of passengers in the plane with Ugbe, his staff
and those he may have had contact with at the airport.
The Committee reached the resolution following a second
letter written by Ugbe to the Committee that he would be unable to appear
before it having come down with an illness after arriving Abuja on Tuesday for
the meeting.
The letter was signed by Gozie Onumonon, Head of Regulatory
Affairs, for the CEO.
It reads in part, “Because of the abundance of caution
needed to be taken in line with the current pandemic, we believe it is
necessary that the meeting be deferred until he has regained his health and is
cleared by his medical doctor. ”
Recall that the Nigerian Government had ordered the
management of MultiChoice, to suspend the implementation of its new hiked
tariffs on different bouquets on its DSTV.
The Acting Director-General of the Nigerian Broadcasting
Commission, NBC, Armstrong Idachaba, gave the order on Tuesday.
Also, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, said there is government’s plan to break the Sporting rights monopoly
of DSTV.
Idachaba and Lai Mohammed spoke at the National Assembly,
while briefing members of an ad hoc Committee looking into the hike in tariffs.
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