10 FAO No. 42 of 2016. services of a licensee is explicitly provided under sub section (3) of section 54 ibid. There is no other provision in the Act of 1996 which Authority vests or Suspension the the power Federal or jurisdiction Government of operations, functions to in either suspend or services or the cause of a licensee on the ground of “National Security”. The legislature, by using clear and unambiguous jurisdiction directives of the by using language, Federal has confined the power and Government the expression to issue "not inconsistent policy with the provisions of the Act’ in sub sections (1) and (2A) of section 8 of the cannot Act of issue 1996. The Federal any policy directive telecommunication policy referred section would be 8 which Government, on matters to in sub inconsistent therefore, relating section with to (2) the of other provisions. The power under section 8 is neither independent nor rather the exclusive, makes it obvious language that it has been used made by the legislature subject to the other provisions of the Act of 1996. Sub section (1) of section 8 has an overriding effect over sub latter provision cannot section (2) of section section (1) ibid. A section be read 8 plain (2) and, in isolation. is, therefore, reading Clause to of the therefore, be (c) of sub read Policy the with sub Directive and SOP unambiguously shows that they are inconsistent with sub section (3) of section 54 of the Act of 1996. As already noted above, the only 1996 to cause when the eventuality the President contemplated suspension has under of operation proclaimed an the Act of of a licensee is Emergency in the