The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Isa Pantami says the communication sector had priotised security over economic benefits.
He made the announced during the official launch of the Nigerian Communications Commission’s, NCC Strategic Vision Plan, SVP, 2021-2025, Podcast and the Book Compendium of Umar Danbatta’s Speeches in Abuja.
Pantami said the Ministry does not joke with security, adding that it aids the security institutions and as such compromises economic benefits that will have been for the sector.
The Minister, while commenting on the issue of subscribers’ bio data, however, explained that only the security institutions were constitutionally empowered to access that.
He said although one’s phone conversation was constitutionally confidential, the 2015 Cybercrime Act and a subsidiary legislation of the commission gave the Federal Government the power of interception.
Also, the Executive Vice-Chairman of NCC, Danbatta, in his speech explained that the Strategic Vision Plan, SVP took cognisance of all the existing developmental documents.
