Don't Miss


Home   >   Goverment   >   Boko Haram’s Victimiation of SSS Goes Hi-Tech

Boko Haram’s Victimiation of SSS Goes Hi-Tech

By on August 30, 2012

Like a plot from a Bond or Mission Impossible movie,  Boko Haram agents publicly posted online State Security Service’s (SSS) agents information online for several days, according to an exclusive AP report.

The Associate Press said it learned, “Personnel records of former and current members of Nigeria’s top domestic spy agency, including home addresses and names of immediate family members, leaked onto the Internet in a threatening message that claimed to come from a radical Islamist sect that’s killed hundreds of people this year alone”.

The records which are suspected to have been leaked from the SSS’s pensions division were uploaded the comments section of a news website.

The information that was leaked included the banking details of current DG of the SSS, Ekpeyong Ita. It also included his son’s contact information.

The Federal Government has threatened to release the names of the backers of Boko Haram since the October 1st, 2010 bombings, but has not delivered on this problem. Yet the intelligence community is being seen as weak for allowing the Islamic sect to score cheap points against it.

One social media analyst said, “How are they going to protect us when they cannot protect themselves?”

Another quipped, “When they are busy drinking Gulder and eating point and kill their personal details are flying around the internet”.

It remains to be seen how the governments N1 trillion 2012 budgetary allocation for Defense is being spent. Recently a N75 billion CCTV installation contract awarded to Chinese company ZTE was reporeted to be facing setbacks as intrigues between the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) over the frequency band with the company deepened as the NCC claims to have allocated the band to another company.
In any event it is not known what difference the 2,000 solar powered CCTVS will make in fighting crime and terrorism in a country where the security forces are not adequately trained or compensated as even within the ranks of the SSS, nepotism and politically linked appointments deter the efficiency and effectiveness of the security service.

 

2 Comments

  1. ahmadu

    August 30, 2012 at 10:57 pm

    Useless people!!! U cannot even protect yourself how can u protect us…I guess nigeria is just a play ground…BH had more intelligent than the nigerian security forces

  2. Onu

    August 31, 2012 at 8:24 am

    It’s a pity that our State Security Service have refused to understand the importance hire the best hands in the IT industry. Internet security should be priority for such an institution. It’s so unfortunate that this has happened but my suspicion is that there is a mole in the system which needs to be fished out.