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Modupe Shodeinde
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has warned telecoms consumers to ensure they do not link their National Identification Number (NIN) to another person’s Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards, no matter how close the person is to them.
This warning was given by the NCC director of public affairs, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, in a statement issued yesterday after its third run Telecom Consumer Town Hall on Radio (TCTHR) programme, broadcast live on Human Rights Radio, 101.1 FM in Abuja recently. The event was hosted on the platform of ‘NCC Digital Signature on Radio’.
The NCC Digital Signature on Radio is the flagship radio programme of the commission created to educate the general public on its mandates and for sharing salient, consumer-centric and up-to-date information on how NCC is delivering on its mandates.
Speaking during the radio programme, NCC’s director, consumer affairs bureau, Efosa Idehen, said “On no account should a telecom consumer, however circumstanced, allow another person to register a SIM with another person’s NIN.”
According to him, compliance with this advice will protect the true owner of the NIN from any liabilities or negative consequences arising from the use of another person’s SIM.
“If the person, whose SIM is linked to your line, uses his own SIM to commit crimes or any form of atrocities, it is easy to be traced to you and then, you will be dealt with because the SIM is linked to your NIN,” he said.
