How the phone worsens insecurity in Nigeria

Often, when we study insecurity in Nigeria, we fail to reduce it to its most powerful daily source. The phone is the most powerful weapon of insecurity. Armed robbers and kidnappers, regardless of their clothing, need accurate information to be able to hit and such complete information comes from the national database. When this national database becomes accessible to those whose value system goes against the national goal, insecurity is created. By extension, when the national goal is indefinable or segmented, the goal of security turns into insecurity. The effect permeates the national fabric staining any harmony.

At the beginning of the new technology, it became clear that public telephony was giving way to private mobile networks. It was therefore necessary to keep the same stranglehold of the old NITEL on the new networks. But this time, it had to be achieved as democratically and secretly as possible. The goal was to register the Sims and identify the mobile phones badociated with the sims at any time. Then, to control the networks, the profit motive has been exploited so that, with increasing taxation, the pressure is exerted on them to disclose the most personal information to the highest bidder in order to stay afloat. The Nigerian Commission of Communication itself is often forced to circumvent the rules or seek the opposite side from the excesses of government and service providers, so that the environment becomes the game of survival. Each new tax increase allows the networks to discover new loopholes allowing them to pbad on their responsibility to the end consumers.

Now let's take a look at the government structure. The political environment.How has turned into an open sesame for "national" conflicts of interest The data collected is intended for a national purpose, the most important being the security of people and property. It is at this moment that the national goal is centered on the man. But when it changes to cash-centric then like the bullion van and its security scheme elaborated here the data can only protect the money and not the lives and the property. This seems to be the story of Nigeria and the growing insecurity caused by an uncertain national goal.

Of course, this is not a strange arrangement for a national to collect data on its citizens, especially when this basic security information has remained used for the original national purpose. Since independence, the Nigerian constitution has gone from bad to worse, in my opinion. When fundamental rights were suspended from 1966, the effect of the prolonged military government and the control of subsequent civilian experiences also changed the color of the judicial process. It is therefore possible for foreigners to take control of the government because its new purpose is uncertain. The recent upsurge of feudal tendencies is an example. Religion occupies a central place in relation to the national goal and elections are no longer centered on the human but a matter of cash and carry. Holders can invite their kits and loved ones in other countries to vote rather than campaign or convince their compatriots to support them, religious or ethnic cleansing becoming a source of power.

Now, how do you keep the national secrets for such a divided purpose? Do not even speculate on it. There is now no national secret when Boko Haram has become strong enough to attack national military bases at will. Meanwhile, pardoned Boko Haram members are regularly injected into the legal army and it is even badumed that the illegals are now better paid. Yet, it is the institutions that keep your telephone records!

Now, this is the scenario that is played out when your phone information containing your well-kept secrets is accessible to kidnappers, armed bandits and cabal factions for ethnic cleansing and so on. Recent research traces the rise of armed robbery and kidnappings during an election in Nigeria. What the different applicants for food do is use your personal secret data, which are available to the highest bidder, to remove their alleged opponents by degrading just before the vote. How do you degrade the opposition? They simply attack the most daring criminals in and out of jails and send them to opponents and steal or sometimes attack their sources of income to eliminate these fortresses. As you can see, armed robberies are on the rise, while kidnappings hold the attention of the opposition during crucial election periods. But after the elections, these bandits were encouraged to understand that the forces of order can sometimes look away while their operations persist, because they now represent free agents.

Now, "service providers" communicate with you more than your friends and family do. What irony is that few people notice what is happening.

You will notice that calls and spam messages intended to follow the owners of individual phones now come shamelessly from the service providers. This annoying service is the way they keep afloat. So, they can even follow you on behalf of your company, your government, your enemy or even the kidnappers. They receive a payment. This money can even come from your own unregulated and looted treasure. Wherever you go and call, these apparently innocuous texts create insecurity in Nigeria and make possible extrajudicial executions! But then what are you asking for regulators? What about the commissions of the National Assembly? They are busy swimming in ignorance while recovering the huge sums they used to pay for power. They are always busy, some of them knowing that the evil exists try not to focus on it so as not to attract the attention of their fellow travelers on witch hunters.

What about the international community? Well, they can not intervene when you appreciate the process. In any case, who will educate them when it will be so expensive to tell the truth here? When they point out that your country is not complying with the international code of conduct, it is the duty of every elected official of the Federal Republic to defend "their" territorial integrity by publicly denying it. All parastatals will also deny, while newspapers will publish editorials condemning this intrusion in "our national interest".

* Nworisara aspired to become President of Nigeria in 1992