Four months after the passage of the Cyber Crime Act, a lawyer, Mr Basil Udotai, has urged the Federal Government to put in place modalities for its effective enforcement.
\nUdotai, who is the Managing Partner of Technology Advisors, a firm of ICT lawyers and consultants, made the plea in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Wednesday.
\nHe said that the Cyber Crime Act 2015, which was passed into law by the last administration, was the best solution for tackling online offenses, if fully implemented.
\nThe ICT lawyer stressed that though the cyber crime act was long in becoming a reality but that deliberate efforts had to be made by the government to join with stakeholders in realising its objective.
\n\u201cFor years, the Nigerian digital economy had carried on with the absence of a legal framework for cyber crime and security.
\n\u201cThere is a glaring gap in law enforcement, national security framework as well as a debilitating weak link in our digital economy value chain.
\n\u201cThe law should reflect current cyber crime and cyber-security challenges which would lead to effective and efficient enforcement of the act and facilitate ease of compliance,\u201d he said.
\nUdotai said that the relevance of the law would be seen when fully implemented because it would protect and secure corporations and government institutions from being compromised.
\nHe said that the principles surrounding cyber crime legislation required that the law should focus on computer, content-related offences and computer integrity offences.
\nThe ICT lawyer urged that the jurisdiction, procedural issues and international harmonisation and relations should be clarified and included in the principles surrounding the Act.
\nOur correspondent reports that the Cyber Crime Act, signed into Law on May 15, stipulates that any crime or injury on critical national information infrastructure would be punishable.
\nIt also stipulates punishments for sale of pre-registered SIM cards, unlawful access to computer systems and cyber-terrorism, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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