*As Security agents intensify wiretap of phone talks *Extend operations to US, UK, UAE, South Africa, Ghana

*It has to do with security - DHQ

Just as foreign currencies especially US Dollars and British Pounds are common features in Nigeria's daily financial transactions, so is the number of international GSM lines in local telephone conversations by state governors, ministers, top security chiefs and several other Very Important Personalities, VIPs to avoid the rising frequent wiretap of private discussions by the nation's intelligence operatives.

Saturday Sun gathered that the number of political office holders and top government functionaries using foreign telephone lines in Nigeria has in the past few months increased geometrically due to an unprecedented acquisition of "spigot and surveillance equipment by the intelligence agencies especially the Department of State Security, DSS in the last two years to enhance their ability to record, retrieve and analyse conversations of certain persons under profile or surveillance."

To safeguard their telephone conversations from the reach of security agents, investigations reveal that many serving state governors, current ministers, former governors, a number of heads of federal parastatals and agencies as well as some VIPs who are involved in national politics and who have the financial means have resorted to using GSM lines used in United Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Ghana and others to make sensitive telephone calls and discussions.

A serving state governor, who confirmed he's one of those who recently joined the trend, told Saturday Sun that recent developments in the nation's political arena have made it expedient for him to join some of his colleaques "who have already ported."

"That (foreign GSM line) appears to be the safest way to communicate with ourselves under the present hostile political environment in our country. It's only reasonable that I do as others do", the state chief executive who prefers not to be named for fear of being misunderstood, stated.

If this class of foreign GSM line users believe they are totally safe from security wiretap, they need to read this. To beat their targets in the game, it was learnt that the intelligence agencies have extended their tentacles to the US, UK, UAE, South Africa, Ghana and others under the guise of counter-terrorism efforts.

Findings reveal that a number of intelligence operatives travel out of Nigeria from time to time to some of the identified countries where they retrieve call logs and other data from the lines of their targets with the aid of their foreign counterparts.

One of the operatives involved in such overseas operations was, until recently, an under-cover agent in a Federal Government-run media house. One of his colleagues confided in one of our reporters that, "the move is a justifiable security assignment but so far, it has been more successful and easier in London (UK) than other jurisdictions."

He said it's easy to get the Nigerian users of some United Kingdom GSM numbers because "even though some of them are registered in the names of proxies, technology often reveals the locations where such lines are being used while the data collated on them confirm the true owners or users." Some of the UK operators, said to enjoy the patronage of Nigerian political office holders and VIPs include T-mobile, Orange, 02, Lebara and Vodafone.

When asked why security agencies have to resort to monitoring phone discussions of political office holders, an obviously stunned Director of Defence Information, DDI at the Defence Headquarters in Abuja, Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade was more anxious to know why one of our correspondents wanted to know about such a sensitive security issue than providing a direct answer.

"Who told you it is DHQ that is monitoring telephone discussion of government officials and VIPs and why do you think so? It has to do with security and DHQ is not the only security agency in the country. So, you should find out who is monitoring phone discussion and not conclude that DHQ is responsible", the Defence spokesman stated.

Nigeria has of late invested millions of dollars to boost intelligence gathering of most of the nation's security agencies especially DSS, Defence Intelligence Agency, DIA and Directorate of Military Intelligence, DMI. Contracts for the procurement of most of the wiretap equipment have often gone to Israeli companies because of the Jewish nation's prowess in intelligence gathering.

One of the latest attempts to invade the privacy of citizens got mired in controversy. The Federal Government was said to have secretly awarded an Israeli firm, Elbit Systems, with headquarters in Haifa, a $40 million contract to help it spy on citizens' computers and Internet communications under the guise of intelligence gathering and national security.

The House of Representatives has instituted a probe into the award of the contract but the presidency, which is at the centre of it, has kept mute.
http://odili.net/news/source/2013/jul/21/502.html

Who said foreign phone lines arent monitored?

An abject nation on its knees.

And the bills increase even as taxpayers suffer more.

#sad

The truth is that these our leaders dont have neither belief nor interest in whatever that emanated from Nigeria, the only thing they are interested in, is looting our money and spending it in foreign countries.
For example........
*their children doesnt school in Nigeria.
*they dont believe in Nigeria's medical facilities and personnels, even, if its ordinary headache they have, they will prefer travelling abroad for medical treatment than upgrading our medical centres to internatinal standard.
*they usually spend their holidays in foreign countries.
*their immediate family members like wives, children and parents do not reside in Nigeria, they only come for public functionaries and return immediately.
and now
*they dont use Nigeria GSM network again, they prefer foreign lines to our dear own GSM lines.


Now, tell me, what belief or interest do they have in Nigeria, except to loot our money and go to foreign countries to squander it.
God will jugde them.

And for not monitoring foreign GSM communication, that is a big lie.

Hmnn, Fingers crossed.

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Your stupidity is nuseating

CFCfan: One of the operatives involved in such overseas
operations was, until recently, an under-cover agent in a
Federal Government-run media house

I love this part..I hope there are lot of undercovers in other media houses..

Oh the amount involved in using those lines here! These guys should stop wasting our resources

Since they have skeleton in their cupboard, so they are afraid to communicate with our lines , time will soon catch up with them

israel007: Oh the amount involved in using those lines here! These guys should stop wasting our resources

Nor be beans.

http://www.o2.co.uk/business/standardrateanddata

They(political office holders) lack the knowledge!! SMH

This is same reason I refused to register my phone numbers. I still haven't.

The fact is that the FG through NCC, the mobile phone operators, the police, SSS and other agencies have not given the citizenry the confidence. Instead, they have given us every course to fear.

Recently, Lamido Sanusi's (CBN gov) private conversations were obtained and laid bare in news media in the country. And for what? Poilitical witch-hunting!

I have been against it and still will. Even in cases of murder, etc there should be due process (probably) through the courts to obtain such and should be classified.
But no!

Maybe when GEJ is out of power, we'd be reading his bedroom love conversations with PEJ

thank God some guys at abuja hv been listening 2 my calls lately

Ok is that so

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you're sick and tired. Port to Sudan where your likes are living.

Cant they use skype or pinger.com or even Gmail calls feature?

I read this article about electronic security in Nigeria. It might interest you to read.

Nigeria – Past, Present and Future Security Threats

Nigeria has over the years witnessed a paradigm shift in the security threat it faces. For decades, armed robbery mainly highway, house-to-house and bank robbery were the order of the day. Armed robbery in Nigeria was popularised by Lawrence Anini, Nigeria’s most notorious criminal.
Anini became a robbery figurehead; he was convicted and executed in August 1986. Years later armed robbery spiralled, becoming the number one security threat to Nigerians and businesses. This has led to the emergence of reactive techniques by successive governments; the government typically responded by purchasing patrol vehicles, formation of “special” police outfits such as operation bang, flush, sweep, fire-for-fire etc to tackle the menace.

Continue reading http://www.fogsecure.com.ng/blog/nigeria-past-present-and-future-security-threats/

Wasters and hypocrites

wasting of money! Daz all.

In 2018 world cup competition. A country called Biafra will participate.

Lol!
U bring a foreign line to roam on a local network.... the local network will host ur foreign line wt dr infrastructure, give u access to initiate and receive gsm services and therefore have ur logs which they transfer to ur home network for billing purposes.
So it BS that you r 'protected' frm local security agencies wen u roam d line!

Solution is just SKYPE .

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As you hate on mr president, i doubt you will come close to being a president ur entire life.

STUPIDITY LIVES ON IN NAIJA AND THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS FOREIGN....

My broda dem say who nor go nor know....

I look forward to the day were we will celebrate all things mad in nigeria for nigerians...until them...make i wak my jacket potato and salad boooo

maxwello.yg:
In 2018 world cup competition. A country called Biafra will participate.

Is that how far UR BRAIN can interprete the topic on ground?....then something wrong (if this topic doesnt have anything in concern with Biafra)

latest tech in town, used by snowden and Assange

St_Black:

Is that how far UR BRAIN can interprete the topic on ground?....then something wrong (if this topic doesnt have anything in concern with Biafra)

let us go to derailers' paradise?

Good!!! CIA or MI6 will just tap it instead... Thieving Baboons