Using phones at checkpoint is wrong – Nigerian Military Chief warns

The Chief of Civil Affairs in the Nigerian Army, Major-General Usman
Mohammed, has said that the use of phones when approaching a military
checkpoint is wrong. According to him, it is security loop for anyone to
approach a checkpoint and at the same time, make use of his or her
phone.

“It is a security measure for when you are approaching a checkpoint,
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” he said