NIGERIA IS FACING SERIOUS SECURITY CHALLENGES, SO IF YOU MUST DO AN INTER – STATE TRAVEL, PLS NOTE THE FOLLOWING:
- Schedule it between 9am to 3pm. Don’t leave too early and don’t be caught in the late hours.
- Remove titles from your phone contacts. Example: Hon, Alhaji, Chief, Inspector, and military ranks in general and do not displace your ID card.
- While driving, focus on the road and ensure that every 5-7 minutes, there is traffic on the returning lane.
- Try not to exceed 100km per hour so you can make your judgements timely. It will also help you look out for traps and appreciate the terrain.
- If you can, please don’t use tinted sheets on your car. It passes a message to bandits and criminal elements that you are a VIP or uniformed man/woman.
- Make sure you always have a spare tyre, plug and fuel pump in your car. Don’t ignore this.
- Even if you are not the one driving, put your phone away and keep your eyes on the road to help driver identify approaching threat.
- Moving in a convoy has proven not to intimidate criminal elements. Bandits took on an 8-car convoy along Kaduna-Abuja sometimes back.
- If you must stop to buy food article or ease yourself, it is advisable to take that break at a town or village.
- Dress down decently while travelling. Avoid clothes, shoes, watches, and other jewelry that make you look more affluent than others. Criminals are very perceptive, and they know how to quickly single you out.
- Keep to the main roads and avoid lonely dark areas.
- Let someone know your movements.
- Always remain LOW PROFILE.
These are safety tips. They will help tremendously, though cannot guarantee total protection from these elements.
Message by the DEPARTMENT OF FORCE INTELLIGENCE, DFI
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