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Bandits expose SIM-NIN linkage failure, police can’t track gunmen

  Adelani Adepegba, Okechukwu Nnodim, Maiharaji Altineand   Godwin Isenyo   Kidnap victims on Monday explained how bandits had been thwa...

 


Adelani Adepegba, Okechukwu Nnodim, Maiharaji Altineand  Godwin Isenyo

 

Kidnap victims on Monday explained how bandits had been thwarting the Federal Government’s security regulations in the telecommunications sector.

 

Residents of Katsina, Zamfara and Kaduna states,  who recounted their experiences in kidnappers’ dens, told our correspondents that they made the bandits’ telephone numbers available to security agents.

 

They, however, lamented that nothing was done to apprehend the hoodlums, thus making a mess of the Federal Government’s directives on registration of telephone subscribers and the linkage of SIM with the National Identification Number.

 

Under sections 19 and 20 of the Nigerian Communications Commission (Registration of Telephone Subscribers) Regulations, 2011, telecommunications firms are expected to register all subscribers.

 

In 2015, the NCC directed all telecommunications firms to deactivate unregistered or partly registered SIMs.

 

The regulation, according to government, is aimed at ensuring that all subscribers are traceable for security reasons.

 

To further strengthen security in the country, the NCC last year directed the linkage of SIMs with the NIN.

 

 

 

But victims, who spoke to The PUNCH, said with the way bandits were operating, the two regulations were of no use.

 

In  Zamfara  State, a kidnap victim, Mallam Yusha,u Jangeme, said security agents in his village, Jangeme, did nothing to trace the telephone calls of the bandits who kidnapped him.

 

Jangeme said bandits a few months ago kidnapped seven people in his village and he was contacted to bring ransom  before they could be freed.

 

According to him, when he got to the forest to give kidnappers N1.4m out of N3m they demanded, they detained him, saying he must bring the remaining N1.6m.

 

He stated, “As soon as I got there, they received the money and refused to allow me to return home, saying that the remaining balance of N1.6m must be paid otherwise, they would not release me and the other seven people.”

 

The victim stressed that the security agents didn’t render any assistance in tracing the telephone calls of the bandits despite the fact that operatives in his village (Jangeme) were aware of the situation.

 

He stated, “The security agents posted to my village (Jangeme) knew what was happening, but they didn’t make any attempt to use the telephone number sent by the bandits who kidnapped us.”


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