Military Tap Phones and Messages of Officers over Coup Allegation

The allegation that some officials of the Nigerian military were plotting a coup has resulted in the military tapping the telephone conversation and text messages of its members in an effort to keep surveillance of the activities of its officers.

The military has also heightened security in different military barracks and formations within the country.

In an Interdenominational church Service at Saint Charles Lwanga Catholic Church in Ikeja Cantonment to celebrate this year’s Nigerian Army Day celebration, the General Officer Commanding, Major-General Isidore Edet while speaking called on officers and soldiers to be wary of the company they keep and to guide their words.

He said, “The Chief of Army Staff, COAS wants us to  remind ourselves that at this critical point in our national life and especially in Lagos and the Military where there are rumours of coup, whether they are perceived or real, that as soldiers we should be very careful of the company we keep.”

”What we need to do as soldiers is to be on the guard, to be watchful of the people that go in and out of the barracks, our mammy markets and places where we eat.”

“We should be careful of what we hear them say by listening attentively so that we can pick what they are saying or planning because when those people want to do this things they come into the barracks and try to incite the barracks community on things that are happening in the country, with words like: ‘Don’t you think you should do something?’’

‘’Maybe they buy you drinks and fish and while you drink and eat with them, they start a conversation. Report such people so that you do not say I didn’t know at the end. Mind what you say and the company you keep. Your telephone conversation is something you should be very careful about because whatever you say or heard are being monitored. Whatever you send through the medium is being intercepted and collated so be careful.”