Civil defence bans personnel on use of social media

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has barred its personnel from the use of social media, especially to discredit the activities of the leadership of the corps.

In a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, signed by the corps Public Relations Officer Emmanuel Okehi, NSCDC threatened that any of the officers caught using any social media platforms like whatsapp, facebook, instagram, among others, “will face the wrath of the law.”

Quoting the NSCDC Comptroller General Muhammed Gana the statement appealed to personnel to “desist from indiscriminate use of the social media platform such as whatsapp, facebook, among others for negative posting and discrediting of the service and activities of government at large thereby causing catastrophe among members.

“Therefore, anyone caught using such platform to discredit the system and its leaders will face the wrath of the law, ”we should abide by the ethics of the profession we belong to,” said Gana.

The CG also warned personnel against accidental discharge, emphasizing that as trained personnel, “there should be no accidental discharge and misuse of fire arms as they are to protect and defend the defenceless and not to harass and intimidate them with the arms.

“Be civil in your approach and do not allow provocation to push you into misfiring or getting involved in accidental discharge or negligence discharge as the Corps will not tolerate such”, he pleaded.

He further informed that the Minister of Interior Abdulrahman Danbazzau “in his wisdom has granted the Corps the opportunity to train its personnel on arms bearing as against the earlier approved arms squad. This he said was necessitated as a result of the enormous tasks and responsibilities of the Corps as regards to its expanded mandate.”