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NCC and the Press |
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NCC Intervenes to Ensure Presentation of Star Prize in MTN Promo to Genuine Winner The timely intervention of the Consumer Affairs Bureau of the Nigerian Communications Commission has ensured that an MTN subscriber, Mr. Isaac Dike, who is a genuine winner of the star prize in MTN’s recent Yello Season Promo, was on February 14, 2006 presented with the new Kia Optima car he won. Dike’s mother, Mrs. Martha Ugi, had earlier lodged a complaint with the Commission’s Consumer Affairs Bureau alleging that the star prize won by her son during the 7th Draw of the MTN Yello Season Promo was not given to him. She disclosed that the star prize of a new Kia Optima car was instead given to a certain Chinenye Onyema who MTN claimed had the same winning number as Dike’s. Mrs. Ugi, having made several visits to MTN offices on behalf of her son in order to get the company to honour its commitment without success, eventually brought the matter before the Commission. The Commission promptly instituted an inquiry into the matter which established that the complainant was the owner of the winning number 08065434897. The complainant also produced a newspaper report with his number as the wining number and another newspaper report of the presentation of the star prize to someone else in Port Harcourt. The Commission subsequently came to the conclusion that the error of handing over the star prize to someone else other than the genuine winner was made by MTN and therefore directed MTN to give the complainant the star prize he rightly won. Obliging the Commission’s directive, MTN’s General Manager, Northern Region, Mr. Mike Ikpoki, presented Dike with a new Kia Optima car on behalf of the company at its Abuja office in the presence of a delegation of the Commission led by the Executive Commissioner, Licensing and Consumer Affairs, Dr. Bahir Gwandu. On receiving the car, Dike thanked the Commission for its intervention to ensure that the star prize was presented to him.
Dave Imoko |