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Last month, when the news broke over El-Rufai's wiretapping scandal, I had made a post titled - "NSA Wiretapping: El Rufai Detained But Mass Illegal Surveillance Continues" in which I made the case for an independent investigation over what El-Rufai said regarding government officials and agencies abuse of Nigerians data privacy rights. It has been over a month now, no investigation has been done into these allegations, Ribadu and all other parties including telecom operators implicated in the scandal remain free while El-Rufai remains in detention.

If Nigeria's privacy and cybercrime laws can be violated by corrupt politicians and those that are meant to enforce such laws like the NSA, DSS, police and telecom operators without any consequences, how then is Nigeria not a criminal entity? Is it not appropriate to call Nigeria a lawless corrupt country.....? Why is Nuhu Ribadu still the NSA till now? Is he not supposed to step aside to allow for an independent investigation? Why should El Rufai be the only scapegoat? Except the presidency is also complicit over these illegal mass surveillance allegations, I see no reason why heads shouldn't roll over this....

As El-Rufai takes the fall, violation of Nigerians privacy rights continue unabated by government malicious actors, criminals, terrorists and rogue telecom services providers, complicating the fight against the country's security crisis because if this was not the case why the deafening silence? I am not surprised over the glaring injustice against El-Rufai on this issue but I think if Tinubu and his government still has any atom of shame or regard for the law, Nuhu Ribadu should be suspended, all security agencies, telecom operators will need to come clean on how they handle access to the private communications data of all Nigerians through a thorough independent forensic probe. All government officials, private third parties found to be engaging in such criminal data interceptions, hacking, illegal retrieval breaches should be prosecuted.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-PPpfuDCEc

For those who may be naive or ignorant, several security research reports including the video above show that Sim Card vulnerability attacks remains an ongoing security threat that occur at the telecom service operator level, a weak point in any mobile phone's security system allowing unauthorized access to user data. In a scenario were a telecom operator is compromised, malicious scripts can be injected through a phone user's sim card toolkit module to compromise a phone's security and privacy settings. When these attacks are executed at the telecom network level, the victim will most times receive strange anonymized sms text messages that include a payload of obfuscated malicious scripts as shown in the screenshot below.

In Nigeria, these network related criminal activities are happening, several users of some popular telecom networks share their experiences frequently on social media, complains of receiving strange malicious SMS messages, reports of unauthorized sim swap hacking, most of these attacks occur as a result of compromised criminal telecom operators and illegal mass surveillance carried out by government agencies without court order.

For Nigeria to be taken seriously as a law abiding country, a responsible government should be seen to uphold the nation's laws including it's privacy laws, anything less amounts to tyranny and abuse of public trust.... Arresting and detaining El-Rufai while leaving rogue government officials, telecom operators implicated over the scandal is nothing but double standards that only reinforces the notion that Tinunu and his government has no regard for the law or privacy rights of Nigerians....

Word salad borne out of fear of the man, Elrufai. The ICPC is now investigating a case of alleged wire tapping under Tinubu's government. What happened to the 420 billion naira allegation? When will Elrufai be arraigned in court? What is Tinubu afraid of?

A kangaroo investigation..... How can you call that an investigation when the prime suspect Nuhu Ribadu is still the NSA?

AMINDA:
Word salad borne out of fear of the man, Elrufai. The ICPC is now investigating a case of alleged wire tapping under Tinubu's government. What happened to the 420 billion naira allegation? When will Elrufai be arraigned in court? What is Tinubu afraid of?

El-Rufai is been detained and persecuted simply because he is part of the opposition.....

AMINDA:
Word salad borne out of fear of the man, Elrufai. The ICPC is now investigating a case of alleged wire tapping under Tinubu's government. What happened to the 420 billion naira allegation? When will Elrufai be arraigned in court? What is Tinubu afraid of?

truthera:
Last month, when the news broke over El-Rufai's wiretapping scandal, I had made a post titled - "NSA Wiretapping: El Rufai Detained But Mass Illegal Surveillance Continues" in which I made the case for an independent investigation over what El-Rufai said regarding government officials and agencies abuse of Nigerians data privacy rights. It has been over a month now, no investigation has been done into these allegations, Ribadu and all other parties including telecom operators implicated in the scandal remain free while El-Rufai remains in detention.

If Nigeria's privacy and cybercrime laws can be violated by corrupt politicians and those that are meant to enforce such laws like the NSA, DSS, police and telecom operators without any consequences, how then is Nigeria not a criminal entity? Is it not appropriate to call Nigeria a lawless corrupt country.....? Why is Nuhu Ribadu still the NSA till now? Is he not supposed to step aside to allow for an independent investigation? Why should El Rufai be the only scapegoat? Except the presidency is also complicit over these illegal mass surveillance allegations, I see no reason why heads shouldn't roll over this....

As El-Rufai takes the fall, violation of Nigerians privacy rights continue unabated by government malicious actors, criminals, terrorists and rogue telecom services providers, complicating the fight against the country's security crisis because if this was not the case why the deafening silence? I am not surprised over the glaring injustice against El-Rufai on this issue but I think if Tinubu and his government still has any atom of shame or regard for the law, Nuhu Ribadu should be suspended, all security agencies, telecom operators will need to come clean on how they handle access to the private communications data of all Nigerians through a thorough independent forensic probe. All government officials, private third parties found to be engaging in such criminal data interceptions, hacking, illegal retrieval breaches should be prosecuted.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-PPpfuDCEc

For those who may be naive or ignorant, several security research reports including the video above show that Sim Card vulnerability attacks remains an ongoing security threat that occur at the telecom service operator level, a weak point in any mobile phone's security system allowing unauthorized access to user data. In a scenario were a telecom operator is compromised, malicious scripts can be injected through a phone user's sim card toolkit module to compromise a phone's security and privacy settings. When these attacks are executed at the telecom network level, the victim will most times receive strange anonymized sms text messages that include a payload of obfuscated malicious scripts as shown in the screenshot below.

In Nigeria, these network related criminal activities are happening, several users of some popular telecom networks share their experiences frequently on social media, complains of receiving strange malicious SMS messages, reports of unauthorized sim swap hacking, most of these attacks occur as a result of compromised criminal telecom operators and illegal mass surveillance carried out by government agencies without court order.

For Nigeria to be taken seriously as a law abiding country, a responsible government should be seen to uphold the nation's laws including it's privacy laws, anything less amounts to tyranny and abuse of public trust.... Arresting and detaining El-Rufai while leaving rogue government officials, telecom operators implicated over the scandal is nothing but double standards that only reinforces the notion that Tinunu and his government has no regard for the law or privacy rights of Nigerians....

Thank you for telling us, madam. No wonder , you are a caring lady