Why Using Phones At Checkpoint Is Wrong – Military Chief – TheNigerialawyer

The use of phones when approaching a military checkpoint is
wrong because it is a security loophole, Chief of Civil-Military
Affairs, Major-General Usman Mohammed said on Monday.

Major-General Mohammed was a guest on Channels Television’s
Sunrise Daily when he was asked why the military frowns on
motorists using their phones while approaching a checkpoint.

“It is a security measure for when you are approaching a
checkpoint,” he said, “you don’t make phone calls. Because the
tendency is that if you are making a phone call, you might be
communicating with some bad guys. Or you may use that particular
device to set up some certain devices.

“It is a general convention; it is not peculiar to Nigeria, it
is everywhere; people who have travelled abroad know that you don’t
make phone calls when approaching a checkpoint.”

Meanwhile, the Major-General stressed that relations between the
military and civilians were improving.

He also noted that while human rights violations have not been
eliminated, the military is working assiduously to limit such
crimes.

“We soldiers are part of the society,” he said. “We didn’t fall
from the sky. We are a product of the society in which we are
operating. Where you have one or two individuals behaving
differently from what the military stands for, you don’t say
everybody is abusing human rights.

“Where those occur, we identify those individuals, investigate
and sanctions are applied.

“But generally, we are doing a lot in terms of educating our
personnel, and also we are instituting measures to ensure that
human rights violations are reduced to the barest minimum.”

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