INCREASED FRAUDULENT ACTS IN NIGERIA; USING AND CONVERTING GOVERNMENT PROPERTIES MEANT TO SERVE THE MASSES TO PERSONAL AND SELFISH AGGRANDIZEMENT

It has come to notice that some statutory staff heading the sensitive governmental offices as well as some private networks now ceases the opportunity to misuse the property under their care to selfish benefit as a result of instigation of their customers to services through bribery and corruption. To justify this point, there are series of activities that had occurred in recent times which when summarized from loopholes, we can discover the imminent fraudulent activities behind cover. One of these acts start from illegal power outage.

Electricity supply had remained the property and business of government of every nation, weather from solar energy conversion or from DAM (as Nigeria generates power from Kanji Dam) as a source of Alternative Current (AC). Though, the plights of irregular services of Alternative Current (AC) in Nigeria had led to families of victim purchasing generator set to use as a means of direct current (DC) when the statutory Alternative ones meant for government regulation are disrupted out of some factors.

Now, the point is that in recent, it had been discovered that not all power outage is as a result of faults from electricity Distribution agency or company in Nigeria. Some of the power outage majorly is as a result of illegal activities by civil senior staff of such company. Whereby, individual ceases government property to execute a private arrangement of inhibition of further action or success of a fellow citizen in order to justify acts of injustice and corrupt practices in the society; now Nigeria is the only country that can give room to such atrocities of victimizations to the public because of selfish purposes. It cannot be tolerated in the western world like Europe and America; even when a president gives such order but for a selfish purpose; he must be impeached because it jeopardizes the masses.

Just as I said earlier, it is a heinous crime when public servant ceases government properties without legal permission to indulge in illegal acts of personal victimization. I say this is as a result of suspected illegal and incessant power switch off sponsored by unknown public servant dignitary of known Electric Power regulating company in my area, in Nigeria. I monitored the activities for long time before writing this article: “As resident of the Area where I am residing make unnecessary and incessant phone calls to power control officials as well as instructing the person behind the wicked act on phone when to switch off power as way to stop their victim’s activities in his private and personal career advancement which is also a genuine ICT profession, this activity had lingered for months till date.

The above activities are as a result of preventing someone from making advancement in His/her personal career which is well known to the victim “their acts of wickedness”. But the question is when one ceases government property to perpetrate injustice, not just for public benefit but to selfish aggrandizement and ego as a top managing staff in a statutory company is a heinous economic crime which is against section 37 of Nigeria constitution as stated:

Section 37 Of Nigeria Constitution

37.“The privacy of citizens, their homes,

correspondence, telephone conversations

and telegraphic communications is

hereby guaranteed and protected.”

And also section 15(5) and section 16 (1, 1b & 1d) which states as follows:

Section 15(5)

            (5)        “The state shall abolish all corrupt practices and abuse of power”

Section 16 (1, 1b & 1d)

“The state shall, within the context of ideals and objectives for      

           which Provisions are made in this constitution:

(1b)    Control the national economy in such manner as to secure

           the maximum  welfare, freedom and  happiness of every

           citizen on basis of social justice   and equality of status and

            opportunity

(1d)    without discrimination to the right of any person to

            participate in areas Of the economy within the major

sector of the economy,  protect the right Of every

citizen to engage in any economic activities outside major

sectors  of the economy”      

Based on the above facts, I am calling on Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the state House of Assembly and Whistle Blowers Committee at http://whistle.finance.gov.ng/pages/default.aspx   to help to investigate this illegal activities in New haven Enugu, as well as alert the statutory bodies in Nigeria responsible in protecting government and individual properties like Nigerian Police Force to be at an alert to such insurgency, so that the criminals behind the acts be apprehended and handed over to Nigerian police for further interrogation and prosecution. When one is victimized in such act, the public also suffers along. If corruption will permit such act in this nation Nigeria to continue, that means we still have a long way to go in the society.

Sequentially to the trends of corruption is SIM Card swapping. We are in a country where everyone wants to make easy money without stress and hassles, thereby encouraging fraudulent acts like illegal SIM card swapping. People had gone to the length of bribing some top network senior officials into illegal activities of swapping SIM cards, most of these acts are perpetrated by women who use persuasion to confuse such personalities in to committing such crimes of swapping SIM cards of innocent citizens who works hard to earn money online; only with a motive of ending up taking over their activities and what the innocent ones has achieved because they felt they are smart and sharp.  On the other hand, this is seen as graduated hacking of someone’s belonging by conniving with private network to favor injustice and corruption in the society.

Sometimes, they bribe networks workers, who sometimes as well cease network operations to execute their wicked acts and activities. Recently, there is Network disruption in Etisalat lines in Nigeria which is termed to be a problem, who knows whether it is really a problem or corrupt activities going on in the network? My etisalat Network is still showing “Emergency”. Committing fraud is very easy but the consequences when one is court and sentenced by justice is brutal. Though, when I asked, they said it is a general problem but I known sometimes that such activities are traceable to corruption in progress like: To swap some prominent phone lines in order to gain access in to someone’s account because these days all the international bodies uses your personal phone number as an identity and confirmation of identity by sending codes. But I still encourage them to prevent change of phone lines or gsm lines used initially, as hackers are good in disrupting one’s account by changing phone lines and email in order to gain a permanent access to one’s account. Google had succeeded in doing this; but other bodies like yahoo, linkedin and affiliate marketing companies to include banks should emulate from such protection and security of prohibiting change of initial GSM or Phone number as 80% of such activities online are traceable to illegal hacking of someone’s account.

To still justify the above acts, someone last year from Senegal chatted with me online on facebook, and I ended up knowing her facebook password which was an account created to swap, and as a lady as claimed seeking for help to consign goods worth of billions giving me his secret password should be genuine person and had trusted you. Then, when she requested for my password to use and correct something in my facebook account, I disclosed it on trust without knowing she was a hacker in disguised. Before I could know what was happening, I could not gain access to my account again because He misrepresented Himself as a lady and got my password. The next thing He did was to delete all my pictures, changed my password but He could not change my email because of Yahoo security of sending codes to phone before you could gain access. So I have to be sharp to gain access to my yahoo mail as a restore point, but facebook could not grant me access because they were seeing another profile together, not mine, so I contact them direct and they asked me to send and upload my identity so that they will examine everything. I have to upload all my identities to include voter’s card as well; after uploading series of documents like permanent voter’s card, birth declaration certificate and my profile passport. Then after 48 hour my face account was restored back. I have to log in successfully through my email which they prohibited me and re-changed all the details the hackers changed. Already, he had succeeded in trying to dupe some of my facebook contacts in united state who later discovered that I was hacked.

Now, the question is why will people refuse to work hard to gain something? Why must one be eyeing what he or she cannot stand to defend before the public? It is a taboo in Nigeria that government who supposed to be fighting corrupt practices online is ignorant of this fact and because they are ignorant of it, they indirectly encourage such activities to victimization of innocent ones. As a writer and publisher with Google and Amazon; I think, I have accomplished much this year, having published three books with Amazon as well as articles like this with google. Yet I still detect hackers roaming around me making effort as well as trying to convert my account and earning process to theirs. I then wondered how I could be sleeping and those their wishes comes to pass? Their idiosyncrasy is obvious that they even go as length of swapping line from ETISALAT NETWORK. Based on this fact, I am beckoning on Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to look into online activities as well as give attention to reports coming from international bodies. I think this will help to curb corruption in this country. If NCC will engage in mass advertisement of their contacts to social networks and media abroad, they will be shocked the kind of reports and fraudulent acts Nigerians commits online. And if they can do this our image will be protected outside the country. Some networks outside the country banned Nigerians and Indians from participating while others accept only united state and Europeans citizens because of these ugly experiences. I think I have made these points from local to international level. Let’s join hands to fight corruption. Thanks

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ONYIA EMEKA HARFORD

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