Moving the motion,
Ossai said the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) introduced the Cashless Policy in a bid to realise its statutory mandate of promoting monetary stability and sound financial system in Nigeria.
He said that one of the innovations introduced with the policy was-USSD services used by Global System for Mobile Communication Technology to communicate with service providers’ computers via text messages.
He explained that it was to check account balance or mobile airtime, generate bank statement or do fund transfer and data balance enquiries or to receive one-time passwords or pin codes.
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The USSD service which is controlled by Mobile Network Operators, is a critical infrastructure used to provide mobile financial services to banks and other financial institutions in cell phones at very low cost, without requiring access to the user’s SIM card.
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By Tordue Salem – Abuja
The House of Representatives, Tuesday, intervened in the conflict between telecommunication companies and banks over N42billion debts from Unstructured Supplementary Service Data(USSD).
The House adopted a motion to the effect, on Tuesday citing its Order 8 Rule 4.
A motion entitled: “Urgent Need to Intervene In the Impasse of N42billion debt between Telecommunication Operators and Banks and Banks and other Financial Institutions”, was sponsored by Rep. Ossai Nicholas Ossai(PDP-Delta).
In presenting his Motion, Ossai recalled that “in a bid for the Central Bank of Nigeria to realize one of its statutory mandate of Promoting Monetary Stability and Sound Financial System in Nigeria, designed a Cashless Policy, that will provide innovations, easy mobile payment, cost reduction, and convenient financial services to millions of Nigerians living in urban and rural areas. One o