By:Douglas Ogbankwa Esq. @douglasogbankwa@gmail.com
It is so easy to stay out of trouble, but difficult to come out of it. The following are easy tips to stay out of difficult trouble:
1. Do not offer lift to anybody at night, for any reason whatsoever, it could be lifted to jail, kidnapper’s den or six feet under .
2. If you were robbed and any of your property is taken away by the robbers, you should report the incidence within minutes at the nearest Police Station, because if the robbers were caught and your property is found with them, without your report in the Police Station recorded, you would be deemed to be part of the robbers!
3. Do not buy used phones or laptops, except you are buying from a known friend and you have ascertained that he was the previous user, as it could be a product of armed robbery or kidnapping, if so and you are arrested, you will be dealing with a case of armed robbery or kidnapping. Also do not buy vehicles from vendors, until you check the registration details at the National Vehicles Registration Database to know the actual owners or you ascertain that the Customs Papers are genuine, it could be stolen, robbed vehicles or a product of a kidnapping operation.
4. Do not leave Credit Alerts on your phone delete them immediately, in case it gets to criminals.Do not leave your bank pin in a phone and also call the bank to block your App as soon as they steal your phone with your bank App.
5. Do not disclose your location online, it could make you an easy targets for assailants .
6. Do not give anybody no matter how close your phone or sim to make calls or allow people to put their sims in your phone to make calls, instead offer them airtime or your battery.
7. Do not respond to strange persons, telling you about NNPC Contract, PHCN Contract, or errors in your accounts, they are fraudsters.
8. Do not ever stay in the midst of a mob, as if any thing including murder happens in a mob, every one in the mob is a suspect.The Police starts from the known to the unknown.
9. Always watch your rear glass while driving to ascertain if you are being trailed, if yes, drive to the nearest Police Station fir safety.
10. When flagged down by security agencies, be calm, polite and communicate with them in good English, it helps, if at night put on your inner lights before you approach them, it shows you have nothing to hide.Be polite and never you be rude to them .
11. Do not allow anybody to use your account or email for a third part transaction and do not transfer money for people indiscriminately, else you will be going in for conspiracy to commit fraud .
12. Do not use ATMs at remote places at night, as you can robbed or kidnapped.
13. Do not use an ATM Machine that shows Microsoft Error or any other error covering the screen, it may have been programmed by Yahoo Boys , to siphon your money .Also do not listen to any body telling to call back a pin for WhatsApp Meeting , as you are calling it , they have an App that auto inputs the pin in your WhatsApp and hijacks same .Also do the two level authentication of your WhatsApp with your pin and email.
14. Do not give testimonies in church with details of you making money or acquiring priced assets, you may acquire a kidnapping or robbery value, the Church is a mixed crowd.
15. Keep details of your financial dealings away from your domestic staff and security details. They could let in assailants or even themselves become assailants.
16. If you had Security Details, be careful what you say or do in their presence, they are also with you to spy on you for their Agencies.
17. If you worked in a Government Body or Multinational, be careful what you relate to your colleagues, Government has spies in every Government Body and Major Companies in Nigeria.
18. Be careful what you say on the phone, write on text and social media messages, every conversation is monitored!Mostly use WhatsApp Calls for classified conversations.
19. Always keep your outside light on and the light inside off ,when sleeping, it confuses robbers and other assailants.Also ensure you have call credits and data at night.
20. Be careful what you communicate on messenger, WhatsApp, or phone calls. They could easily be used as evidence against you. If you wanted to make a classified communication, do it by WhatsApp calls. It can not be recorded as it is an encrypted, end to end communication.
22. Read documents very well before you sign. You are bound by what you sign. Do not allow any police man or security agency to force you make any statements, insist on seeing your Lawyer, by the New Law -ACJL, they will oblige you, never make a statement for any reason that will implicate you, you could be on your way to jail.
Always have enough credit on your phone before sleeping, never sleep without airtime on your phone and you must have the Police Control Room Number of your state and call first to be sure, that number can save your life and I tell you it works like magic.
About the Author, :
Douglas Ogbankwa Esq., is the Convener of the Security Situation Room.
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