Mobile Phone Use Cannot Cause Cancer – Minister

The Minister of Commu
nication  Technology (CT) Dr  Omobola Johnson, has described as untrue the rumour in some quarters that the use of mobile phones is possible of causing cancer.
She pointed out that there are no known health dangers associated with the use of mobile phones or its nearness to telecommunication installations
Omobola who barred her mind on  the issue in a chat with reporters in Abuja, which was recorded  in Port Harcourt, said for now, the use of mobile phones post no risk to human health.
The minister, who spoke through her Special Assistant on Media, Efem Nkanya, noted that such speculation was a personal  view of some parts which lack scientific proof.
The Tide gathered that the rumour was generated after one Mrs Ngozi Ogunjiofor, a deputy director, Department of posts and Telecoms, Federal Ministry of Communication & Technology who represented  the minister in a public  function said in her personal view  that the use of mobile phones could cause cancer.
“The most dangerous elements in the communication  sectors are mobile phones,  because of the health and other related  risks they bring. Some radioactive elements in the mobile phones  might affect the body and cause cancer and other health challenges”, she said.
The Minister told subscribers to disregard such reports, adding that the use of mobile   phones is safe.
In a related development, the Dean, Faculty of Science  at the University of Ibadan, Prof Idoutu Farai, said the radiations from mobile  phones  are not dangerous to human health.
He  described such rumours as false  saying that the non-ionishing icons in phones cannot disrupt the atoms  in human being.
Fara, who is a expert in radiation and health physics, noted that the non-ionishing radiations which included those emitted at the broadcasting stations and radio signals are not harmful to human beings.
He maintained that they lack the capacity to destroy calls due to the procession of what he called  minimum energy”.
He was of the view  that if the GSM could be linked as are of the possible causes  of cancer, that the remote control used at homes  could also be feared as one of the cases of cancer, saying that the GSM  and remote control perform  also most same  function.