The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has disclosed that it remitted an Operating Surplus/Spectrum Fees of estimated N197.7bn to the Federal Government within its Financial Performance period ended December 2021.
Further, it clarified that under the same Financial Performance Reporting period, it had a bank balance of about N46.97bn.
The Commission made the clarification against the backdrop of report which claimed “NCC Incurs a Deficit of N17bn, Spending N35.2bn on Personnel, Consultancy Fees”.
The clarification statement by the NCC Director, Public Affairs, Reuben Muoka, erased any doubt that there was any deficit spending.
According to him, “The Commission is concerned with the inability of the online publication to accurately interpret the contents of its 2021 Annual Reports which have been made public. As a result, the publication gave a wrong impression that the Commission incurred a N17bn deficit because of expenditures on personnel and consultancy fees. This is far from the truth.
“Though the Statement of the Financial Performance of the Commission for the period ended December 2021, clearly indicates that the sum of N17.3bn was a “Surplus/(Deficit) retained for the period)”, this does not imply that the Commission incurred a cash deficit as the expenditure in its financials were both in cash and accruals applicable to the year.
“If the publication had inquired of the constituents of our expenditure, it would have learnt that the expenditures for the year 2021 included accruals for items undergoing procurement at the end of the year, like the State Accelerated Broadband Initiative, SABI, being implemented by the Commission, which was standing in the sum of about N24bn in the financial report.
“The Commission also remitted an Operating Surplus/Spectrum Fees of estimated N197.7bn to the Federal Government, under the same Financial Performance Reporting period, and had a bank balance of about N46.97bn, erasing any doubt that there was any deficit spending”.
The Commission disclaimed the wrong impression created by the reported headline, and the subsequent misinterpretation of the financial report in the publication may have had in the minds of the public, and stakeholders.
The Commission reiterated its commitment to effective and transparent processes in all its regulatory, management and financial activities.
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