Being deeply concerned by this development, the Commission wishes to assure the Government and people of the USA and other relevant bodies that it has already engaged the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for it to expunge the said 232-21 national destination code (NDC) from its database, and that on the domestic front, the Commission and law enforcement agencies have commenced immediate investigations not only into this particular matter, but other reports by persons in Sierra Leone of similar international scam calls received by them with 242, 243 country codes.

In the meantime, mobile phone subscribers are hereby admonished not to call back strange numbers, as the Commission fully assures all of its commitment to get at the bottom of these issues and addressing them accordingly.