Stop harrassing young Nigerians carrying laptops- FG tells security agents

Isa Ali Pantami, the Minister of Communications, has denounced the across the board provocation of Nigerians with PCs, tablets and other ICT contraptions in open places by security agents.

While acclaiming the EFCC and other security specialists on its battle against cybercrimes, the Minister in an announcement marked by his representative, Uwa Suleiman, said that one of the contrary impacts of this activity is that youthful people are thought to be fraudsters by the security authorities without proof or verification of perpetrating such violations.

The announcement to some degree peruses


The Ministry notes with dishearten, this grievous new development as we commend the developing and foaming innovation eco-framework in Nigeria that empowers youthful people to take in different aptitudes running from programming designing to shifted types of business by basically getting to online devices and substance on these gadgets.

"We know that few different people have occupied with evil exercises using PCs and comparative gadgets, we should anyway be mindful so as not to paint every single youthful Nigerian with a comparable brush.

It would in this way be counterproductive to smother this segment of the economy by marking each youthful Nigerian with a figuring gadget as a fraudster.

It is in this light the Federal Ministry of Communications scowls at the present profiling and badgering of youthful Nigerians and thusly advises security organizations to be careful in these circumstances.

We comprehend the requirement for ace movement to secure the general public, notwithstanding, this must be done solidly while perceiving the key human privileges of each native of Nigeria. On the off chance that this circumstance goes unchecked, it will hose the overwhelming endeavor at expanding the economy and rather drive increasingly youthful energies underground with disastrous results