According to Chris Uwaje, the President of Global
Network for Cyber Solution (GNCS) and Vice President of Institute of Software
Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON), the current state of cyberspace,
incorporating the practice regarding the technical ability to apply forensic
technology to track and trace – internet based crimes is to say the least still
primitive at all levels.29 The
anonymity enjoyed by to day’s cyber crime perpetrators poses a grave security
threat to national development, security and survivability of our nation. It is
therefore necessary and important that there be agencies set up to fish this
threat in our society.30
In Nigeria presently, there are no
agencies that is constituted by law specifically to tackle the threat of cyber
crime. Rather what we have is an NGOs in the name of Global Network for Cyber
Solution (GNCS) setup by every leading member from all works of life to
sensitize policy makers on the need to explore the issue of cyber crime and
cyber-security with particular reference to the future of Nigeria.
An
inter-agency body with private sector representation called the Nigerian Cyber
Crime Working Group (NCWG) was inaugurated by ex-President Obasanjo on the 10th
of March, 2005. Its objective among others was to embark on public enlightenment
campaigns to educate Nigerians on cyber crime in general and the rational
behind the administration’s policy in seeking to confront cyber-crime and
related issue in Nigeria.
All these agencies (and more other
ones out there) cannot be said to be effective enough, in tackling the menace
of cyber crime.
29 C. Okere “Cyber crime in Nigeria” The Guardian Newspaper,
August 13 (2008) 39.
30 Ibid.
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