As part of its efforts to check illegal SIM
card sales and insecurity in the country, Nigerian Communications Commission
(NCC) has arrested three illegal SIM card dealers in Bwari, FCT, Abuja, DigitalSENSE Business news
reports.
NCC, Assistant Director, Law Enforcement
Unit, Salisu Abdu said the suspects who were arrested on recently had been
handed over to the police warning that since 2012 the commission had advised
operators and all dealers across the country to stop selling registered SIM
cards.
“We are here for the continuation of our
exercise to stop illegal SIM card registration in Nigeria. We got a report that
the sales of registered cards was still ongoing in Bwari and we found out that
the information was true and we arrested three suspects with different
registered SIM cards. We have handed them over to the police for investigation
at the end we will get to the root of where and how they got those cards and
prosecute them accordingly,’’ he said.
Salisu lamented that the commission had
even after giving the warning them realised that some operators and dealers
still continued flouting the order.
“Some registered the cards and brought them
to the market for sale, investigation has just started and we are bent on
getting to the root of the matter. This is another opportunity for us to advise
the public that the purchase of registered cards is an offence because of the
security threat to the nation. Everybody knows the security situation in the
country today and that some people are using mobile telephones to carry out
kidnapping, armed robbery and a lot of fraudulent activities”, he said.
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