FCT Commissioner of Police, Sunday Babaji, receiving a gift from executive members of APOSUN when they paid him a courtesy visit.
By Daniel Tyokua
A registered group, Association of Point of Sales Users in Nigeria (APOSUN) has begun awareness campaign on halting fake POS operators and fraudulent financial transactions across the country.
The chairman Board of Trustee, Ibrahim Abdullahi during an advocacy visit to the FCT Commissioner of Police on Tuesday, said the association was disturbed by the activities of unregistered Point of Sales (POS) in operation.
He explained that the body with the support of Police, the body will be sharing data and other useful information on how to track down fraudulent acts being carried out by bandits.
Abdullahi revealed that most of the POS machines are managed by private financial companies, and not by the commercial banks.
According to him, it was difficult to regulate the system without having a well structured management and partnership with the security agencies, especially the police.
He said as a registered group, it will make the operators and users to always have safer financial transaction in any location.
“The association is concerned with working with security and financial institutions to bring about sanity in the POS business”
On his part, the FCT commissioner of police Sunday Babaji promised to give the association necessary support to rid off the society of illegal transaction especially in the nation’s capital, Abuja.
The association also visited an elder statesman and former minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sani Zangon Daura in Abuja, and adopted him as the grand patron.
