Federal ministry of communication frowns at harassment of youths by security operatives

The Federal Ministry of Communications (FMC) has frowned at wrongful profiling of young Nigerians with computing devices like laptops, tablets and other gadgets by security agencies.

Minister of communications, Isa Pantami in a statement signed by his spokesperson Uwa Suleiman admonished security agencies to be circumspect and exercise restraint from such.

The minister notes that if this trend goes unchecked, it will dampen the vigorous attempt at diversifying the economy and push more young energies underground with catastrophic consequences.

These reports indicate that young persons are generally regarded as fraudsters by officers of security agencies if found with such devices in their possession and subsequently subjected to varied forms of harassment and in some cases outright extortion.