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.
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