The federal government has decried the
way and manner Nigerians, especially
women, are being treated in their bid to
comply with the Nigerian
Communications Commission (NCC)
directive on the registration of the
subscriber identification module (SIM) in
use, threatening to deal with erring
telecom companies henceforth.
A statement by the special assistant on
media to the minister of
communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu, Mr
Victor Oluwadamilare, said that this has
become necessary, following the barrage
of compliants by telecoms subscribers
across the country.
According to him, “The minister’s office
had been inundated with complaints from
Nigerians, particularly women in veil, over
the way they were being treated,
sometimes humiliated, by the workers of
telecommunications companies
nationwide.
“In some of the complaints, women in
pudah were required to remove their veils
in public despite requests by such
women that a place should be provided
for them away from public glare and for
only female officials to attend to them.
All entreaties by these women failed,
rather they were allegedly accused of
being Boko Haram agents and refused
registration after several altercations
ensued in some of the registration
centres.”
The minister, who frowned at the
development, urged the
telecommunications companies involved
to accord maximum respect to Nigerian,
particularly women, by respecting their
feminine nature and religious disposition,
moreso since the Nigerian Constitution
has guaranteed the right to freedom of
thought, conscience, and religion of all
citizens and that such right should never
be violated by executive or administrative
lawlessness, high handedness, and
insensitivity.
He noted that Nigerians deserve
unreserved apologies from the concerned
telecoms companies, saying that it is
inhuman and unacceptable to treat
Nigerians in such a cruel manner as it is
a universal maxim that the right of even
minorities are respected worldwide. He,
therefore, urged the telecommunications
companies to train and retrain their
workers on the right and more civilized
ways of treating their customers, adding
that sanction may be applied against any
erring company that refuse to comply
with the policy of the Nigerian
government under the change agenda of
President Muhammadu Buhari.

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Nonsense!!! Make dem go cover there face 4 there husband house

lf l hear! l hope the embassies of western nations in Nigeria will be told to also make such provisions and making sure the Visa officers are also female! Reverend Sisters also wear veils and am yet to read or hear them complain of being "humilated"!