FG Agencies Bicker Over Sealing of Telecoms Base Stations

(AllAfrica Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) The crisis between the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and National Environmental Standards Regulatory and Enforcement Agency (NESREA) over sitting of telecoms masts within residential areas took a new dimension yesterday when the former unsealed a base transmission station earlier sealed in Abuja by the latter.

But later in the day, NESREA went back to the site and resealed the base stationwhich belongs to MTN.

NESREA said the MTN base station fall short of its 10 meter-away -from -residential building standard. The base station in question is said to be 5.6 meter away from the closest building in the area.

The two government agencies have been engaged in a cold war for the past two years over sealing of telecoms masts.

NCC said NEREA is overstepping its bounds by sealing base stations which conform to the 5 metre-away from residential building standard it has set for the industry.

Earlier yesterday, NCC's Head of Compliance Monitory, Ephraim Nwokonneya, while briefing journalists after unsealing the MTN base station at Efab Estate at Life Camp area Abuja, said NESREA was wrong and overstepping its statutory role as a government agency.

According to Nwokonneya, by virtue of Nigerian Communications Act of 2003, NCC is the only government agency empowered by law to regulate telecommunications in the country and NESREA, by sealing base stations, is encroaching into "our duties." Copyright Daily Trust. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).

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