The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is partnering with the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to tackle criminal activities bedevilling the telecommunications sector.
The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Professor Umar Danbatta, who addressed senior management staff of NSCDC in the South West geopolitical zone, at an exclusive workshop organised by the Commission, signed the Memorandum of Understanding between the agency and the Commission.
The meeting explored strategies for enforcement of laws, subsidiary legislations, and extant guidelines to arrest perpetrators of all forms of criminality such as theft and vandalism of telecommunications infrastructure, the illegal use of fraudulently-registered Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards and operating without license among others.
Danbatta, who was represented at the workshop by Commission’s Director, Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement, Ephraim Nwokonneya, recalled that the NCC has been working with relevant law enforcement agencies and in particular the NSCDC on protecting the telecom sector from all kinds of criminal behaviour.
“Through despicable activities that are criminal and totally at variance with national security concerns of government, the deviant elements in our midst have been acting to undermine efforts put in place to consolidate the gains of the sector.“
He emphasised that while the NSCDC officers have been of tremendous assistance, the objective of the workshop was to constantly engage and update them on new trends and existing regulations, requiring concerted efforts for their implementation towards enhancing sanity in the telecom sector.
Danbatta said the NSCDC and other agencies have done very well with the assistance of security personnel in carrying out raid exercises and mopping up fraudulently-registered SIM cards found in circulation, as well as in raising the banner of awareness on the need to protect critical national telecom infrastructure.
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