Civil Defence bans personnel on use of Social Media

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has banned its staff from using social media, most especially to discredit the corps and its leadership.

In a statement signed on Wednesday in Abuja by the corps Public Relations Officer Okeh Emmanuel, said any of the officers caught using such platforms like whatsapp, facebook, among others, “will face the wrath of the law.”

The statement quoted the NSCDC Comptroller General Muhammed Gana to have “appeal 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 catastrophy 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.

While warning the officers against accidentall discharge, Gana stressed 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 added.”

The Comptroller General also said that 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.”