Authorities in the Nigerian Navy have warned people to avoid buying fake security outfits, because impostors are currently selling them and advised that, ” information about these impostors and illegal maritime outfits should be forwarded to the Nigerian Navy so as to facilitate the arrest of these miscreants”.
The Navy listed some of the proscribed maritime outfits operating illegally in the nation as “Nigerian Merchant Navy, Nigerian Merchant Navy Coastal Defence Force, Nigerian Coast Guard, Merchant Navy Maritime Academy, Nigerian Merchant Navy Coast Guard Security and Safety Corps, Maritime Security Agency as well as Nigerian Maritime Law Enforcement Agency amongst others”.
In a statement titled “Worrisome Activities of Impostors and Fake Maritime Security Outfits,” Commodore AO Ayo-Vaughan, director of naval information (doc here), revealed that the navy has been monitoring the actions of imposters and fake maritime security outfits.
It reads, “The Nigerian Navy (NN) has noted with dismay the unscrupulous activities of some impostors and self-acclaimed maritime security outfits who make use of naval uniforms and accoutrements including uniforms that resemble naval uniforms to deceive, harass, intimidate, and defraud unsuspecting members of the public.
“Some of these outfits go as far as selling recruitment forms to the public and even conduct secret recruitment exercises and training.
“The activities of these impostors and miscreants are observed to be on the rise notwithstanding the proscription order of the Federal Government of Nigeria official Gazette No. 58 Vol 100 titled “the Dissolution and Proscription of Certain Associations Order, 2013” banning all such firms/outfits.
“The Order in Paragraph 2 states that “As from the commencement of this Order, the dissolved and proscribed associations shall not be formed into any new associations by whatever name or title, within the meaning of this Order”.
“Suffice to state that the NN in the past had arrested and handed over for prosecution, members of some of these outlawed organizations...
