Deolu Ogunbanjo, national president, National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers (NATCOMs) has displeasure at the numerous levies saddled on members by telecoms operators.
According to him, the association is kicking against the new levy because it will lead to mobile operators jacking up their prices and that will affect subscribers.
He added that it would also affect the growth of the industry and urged for its total removal.
Ogunbanjo said: “The recent directive by Central Bank of Nigeria imposing 0.00 per cent levy on all electronic transactions is a levy too many.
“There are 38 levies already and this is the 39th imposed on telecoms operators by the three tiers of government and their Ministries, Departments and Agencies.
“This is so wrong because the burden of it all will be on subscribers.
“The network operators are complaining of these numerous levies and hindrances, adding that it has an adverse effect on network delivery and efficiency.”
Ogunbanjo said that the levy would not augur well for the telecoms industry in the country as it was coming when the world was encouraging people on data usage.
He said that what the government was doing was to encourage subscribers on one hand, and on the other hand make things expensive with the introduction of the levy.
He said: “This should not be entertained at all and we are joining other industry stakeholders in condemning it.
“Government is talking about all electronic transactions and we are going cashless, it is simply unacceptable, they should have a rethink.”