IMEI: Buhari has a secret agenda — Yesufu reacts


Human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has questioned the trustworthiness of the Buhari administration, which she said has since lost the trust of the people, yet continues to demand for extremely sensitive data of Nigerians, with the latest directive being to submit the International Mobile Equipment Identity of their phones to the NCC from July.

Yesufu has similarly lambasted the Buhari government over its previous decision to force Nigerians into linking their mobile phone numbers with their National Identification Numbers (NIN). 

Things got even much worse when it was later revealed that the very person being trusted with these information, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has a record of sympathising with terrorists.

Yesufu in an interview with The PUNCH on Friday, said the latest directive by the NCC is yet another proof that the Buhari administration has an agenda against the people, saying it is neither wise nor safe for Nigerians to submit their phone identities to the NCC under Pantami.

The IMEI number is a 15-digit number unique to each phone. With it, a phone can be tracked and located irrespective of the cellular number in it.

According to the NCC, the move would enable it “to curtail the counterfeit mobile phone market, discourage mobile phone theft, enhance National Security, protect consumer interest, increase revenue generation for the government, reduce the rate of kidnapping, mitigate the use of stolen phones for crime, and facilitate blocking or tracing of stolen mobile phones and other smart devices”.

She said, “The minister of communications is a terrorist sympathiser even though he tries to deny it initially but when the overwhelming evidence of what he had done came out, he then said he did it in his younger age. Somebody in his late 30s was not a young person.

“Somebody who has sided with terrorist groups like Boko Haram now at the helm of affairs, I am not going to submit my details in his custody.

“He is not supposed to be the minister of communications; he ought to have been sacked right now. The terrorists have one of their own in such a sensitive place and I am not going to put my information in his care. Handing any information to him is not wise at all. He shouldn’t be at the helm of such sensitive ministry.”

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