FCT High court in Abuja has ordered MTN Nigeria to pay Ezuku Emmanuel Anenih, a lawyer, the sum of N5 million for illegal deductions for unsolicited caller tunes.
The lawyer had on October 2014 sued MTN Telecommunication Service Provider for deducting money from his account illegal for unsolicited caller tunes.
He had complained to MTN about the illegal deductions which MTN evidently acknowledged and subsequently sent him N700 as a compensation.
Emmanuel dragged MTN to court in which Justice Ishaq Bello, chief judge of the FCT, ordered MTN to pay Mr. Emmanuel N5m for damages.
He was also awarded N500,000 cost for the case by the judge.
It will be recalled that a five day ultimatum was issued by Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, minister of Communications and Digital Economy, to the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) in November 2019, to resolve the challenges of illegal data deductions and review the cost of data downward.
