By Premium Times
The Nigerian government has summoned the
management of Elbit Systems, an Israeli security
firm contracted to spy on Nigerian Internet users,
for a meeting to explain why the contract should
not be revoked after it allegedly breached a
confidential agreement in the contract.
The management of the Israeli company are
expected to first appear before two Nigerian
security chiefs – the national security adviser
and the director general of the National
Intelligence Agency – in Abuja this week. They
would then be taken before President Goodluck
Jonathan, who is miffed that Elbit’s action had
let this newspaper to probe into details of the
secret contract.
The security chiefs will relay government’s
anger over Elbit System’s ‘breach’ of
confidentiality in the $40million contract which
will see the Israeli company spy on citizens’
computers and Internet communications under
the guise of intelligence gathering and national
security.
The Nigerian government is angry the Isreali
company went public with the contract, in a
global press release that tipped off PREMIUM
TIMES which, after extensive investigation,
revealed the details of the deal.
The disclosures sparked national outrage, with a
lot of Nigerians now apprehensive that their
country might be sliding back to dictatorship.
A source close to the deal has told this
newspaper the government is angry for two
reasons.
First, the administration is angry and
embarrassed that the contract, considered by
government as top national security secret, has
now been blown open.
Elbit announced the contract award few weeks
ago in a global press release in an opaque
statement that did not disclose the Nigerian
destination of the deal.
“Elbit Systems will supply its Wise Intelligence
Technology (WiT) system to an unnamed country
in Africa under a new $40 million contract
announced on 24 April… for Intelligence Analysis
and Cyber Defense,” the company’s general
manager, Yehuda Vered, said.
But PREMIUM TIMES was able to tap its sources
within the administration to determine that
Nigeria is indeed the “unnamed African country.”
The contract will help the Jonathan
administration access all computers and read all
email correspondences of citizens in what is
clearly, an infringement on constitutionally
guaranteed freedom of expression, multiple
channels confirmed.
On the other hand, politicians in Aso Rock are
angry over the disclosure of the contract sum,
and what is left of the originally approved sum,
our sources say.
The administration had indicated in the 2013
budget that it would procure a Wise Intelligence
Network Harvest Analyzer System, Open Source
Internet Monitoring System and Personal Internet
Surveillance System at a cost of N9.496 Billion
($61.26 million).
With that the contract awarded to Elbit for about
$40million, and the story made public, attention
has been drawn to the leftover $21million
earmarked for the project.
“That money was meant to be shares,” our
source said. “It is a security contract and no one
will ever ask questions. Now everybody is angry
that sharing the money is now difficult.”
Investigations indicate that the Isreali company
was awarded the contract without tenders or call
for bids, just as there were no public
announcements.

Wind don blow, fowl nyash show. This one na national fish them dey chop no be cake again.

oya where dem dey GEJ's laptop dogs make una come defend oga at the top.

Oga at the top don phvck up na why them (laptop dogs) keep quiet.

A no bid contract riddled with corruption.Ngeria is truly 4ucked-up. Can't wait for 2015 to get rid of this fool

Angry jonathan Summons who?

@op Change that topic to jonathan beg Israeli firm for a meeting

Insincere9gerian and his crew never collect April Salary.

Kamanda: Insincere9gerian and his crew never collect April Salary.

Lol

and so what??