Exasperated by the way Nigeria handles the
homosexuality matter, an Irish hacker -- who goes
by the monicker Paddyhack -- has conducted a
cyber attack on the official government of Nigeria's
website. The 'assault' is apparently aimed at making
President Jonathan to veto the bill according to
which all homosexuals in Nigeria are subject to
imprisonment. The website was attacked on
Thursday night; though things were later restored, it
remains unknown if it were the officials that took matters in their hands, or the attackers stepped
back. reminds that, according to the anti-
gay bill, recently passed by the National Assembly
of Nigeria to the vigorous supportof Nigerians,
convicted homosexual persons are subject to 14-
years imprisonment. In his address to Nigerians, the Irish hacker said
thus: "Nobody should live in fear of being jailed,
when their only action is loving another consenting
adult, regardless of gender." 'Paddyhack' gave the President 72hours to
"renounce and veto this Bill." "Failure to follow our order will unleash a torrent of
fury aimed directly at the direction of your
administration, starting with some startling but
unsurprising evidence of corruption in your ranks. No
need to start destroying evidence. I already have it,"
the Irish hacker, claiming to belong to the global Anonymous group, declared. Nigeria.gov.ng, the website that was hacked, is
Nigeria government's official homepage, equivalent
to these of U.S' and UK's governments, and
managed by the Information ministry of Nigeria. It is
worth noting that this year, the ICT (Information and
Communication Technology) department of the Information Ministry got N63.5 million from the
national treasury. Of this total, the website in
question received N10 million. A curious fact: the Thursday nightattack was
announced by the Irish hacker in advance on his
Twitter account: 'Paddyhack' launched #opNigeria on
July 1."Just over two hours to launch of
#OpNigeria," he tweeted in his Twitter diary.
However, web administrators of the Nigeria.gov.ngwebpage were unable to prevent the
cyber attack. Joseph Mutuah, the spokesman of the Ministry,
could not provide thereasons behind the
government's inability to provide adequate sequrity
for the web infrastructure. "They are hackers," he said, drawing analogy
between cyber criminals and armed robbers who
break into someone's property. It seems that 'cyber wars' are rapidly becoming a
key protest tool for the social media community of
our country.

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