Do Not Give Out Your Phones To People To Make Calls, DSS Warns

 

The Deputy Director, Public Relations, Department of State Security, Marylin Ogar, on Monday warned Nigerians not to allow even their relatives use their phones to make calls, warning that they w ill be liable for any crime related call made with their phones.

“If you are caught either selling a car without proper documentation, if you are caught, maybe because you want to be a good Muslim or Christian, and you give your phone to people when you cannot monitor such conversations, or you are caught giving out your bank account details for money to be transferred or paid in by anybody, of course your are liable” warning that “ignorance of the law is not an excuse” she said.

She also defended the decision by the federal government to close down schools and restrict movement during the World Economic Forum on Africa taking place in Abuja from May 7-9.
Speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s breakfast show, Sunrise Daily, Ogar who had declined to comment on the issue earlier, said “mine is to come and speak to Nigerians to be more conscious”.
She however noted that one of the reasons for the restriction is the fact that “we are going to have very top government officials from other countries coming in and there is going to be huge traffic” insisting that “I wouldn’t come here and start to discuss what the President of the Federal Republic (of Nigeria) has discussed”.

Ogar noted that “mine is to bring people to par with what they are expected to do” when the forum commences and after it ends. She warned Nigerians to desist from giving out their bank account information details to anyone to make payments into “no matter the rewards” adding that network providers have made it possible for users to purchase recharge cards of as low as N1 and at such people should not borrow their phones to anybody.

She said “investigations are ongoing into some of the security challenges we have had in the past and some of the people we have been able to pick up and we are talking to, we discover that they refuse using their own phones and maybe out of the gullibility of their neighbours, who believe you must be your neighbours keeper, they use their phones to make all sort of calls”.

She urged Nigerians to exercise patience over the effort security agencies are making to curb the challenges the country is facing adding that security operations cannot be discussed on national television or the pages of newspapers.