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MTN kry die skuld vir Boko Haram-sterftes

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President Jacob Zuma sê die regering sal nie probeer om die geskil tussen die selfoonmaatskappy MTN en die Nigeriese regering in die guns van die Suid-Afrikaners te besleg nie.

Zuma sê dit is ‘n kwessie tussen MTN en Nigerië en hulle sal wag tot die twee partye die kwessie afgehandel het.

Die Nigeriese president, Muhammadu Buhari, het vroeër MTN die skuld gegee vir die dood en ontvoering van Nigeriërs deur die Boko Haram-militante groep.

Die Nigeriese kommunikasie-kommissie het MTN met bykans R80-miljard rand beboet omdat hy nie die reëls vir simkaart-registrasie nagekom het nie.

Buhari het gesê duisende ongeregistreerde simkaarte het in die hande van terreurgroepe beland.

“Tussen 2009 en vandag, is ten minste 10,000 Nigeriërs vermoor deur Boko Haram. Dit was die rede waarom NCC gevra het dat MTN, Glo en die res van hulle hul selfone moet laat registreer. Ongelukkig was MTN baie, baie stadig en het bygedra tot die ongevalle”.

Selfs al het die maatskappy onlangs ‘n betaling van $250 miljoen gemaak om ‘n skikking te fasiliteer, het Nigerië se president volgehou om die maatskappy verantwoordelik te hou.

MTN bied diens aan meer as 200 miljoen mense in Afrika en die Midde-Ooste. Nigerië is na bewering die selfoon-reus se grootste mark.

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2 responses to “MTN kry die skuld vir Boko Haram-sterftes”

  1. Morné de Villiers Avatar
    Morné de Villiers

    MTN word nou soos die Duitsers behandel met boetes. Is die Holle-kos oorlewendes dan besig om almal uit te sterf? Nou dat Zuma nie meer vir MTN kan melk nie, gooi hy hulle vir die krokodille.

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    From Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-10/iran-told-to-pay-10-5-billion-to-sept-11-kin-insurers

    Iran was ordered by a U.S. judge to pay more than $10.5 billion in damages to families of people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and to a group of insurers.

    U.S. District Judge George Daniels in New York issued a default judgment Wednesday against Iran for $7.5 billion to the estates and families of people who died at the World Trade Center and Pentagon. It includes $2 million to each estate for the victims’ pain and suffering plus $6.88 million in punitive damages.

    Daniels also awarded $3 billion to insurers including Chubb Ltd. that paid property damage, business interruption and other claims.

    Earlier in the case, Daniels found that Iran had failed to defend claims that it aided the Sept. 11 hijackers and was therefore liable for damages tied to the attacks. Daniels’s ruling Wednesday adopts damages findings by a U.S. magistrate judge in December. While it is difficult to collect damages from an unwilling foreign nation, the plaintiffs may try to collect part of the judgments using a law that permits parties to tap terrorists’ assets frozen by the government.

    The case is In Re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, 03-cv-09848, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).

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