Nigeria not ready for cyber attacks – Buhari

The Chairman, Senate Committee on ICT and Cyber crimes, Senator Abdulfatai Buhari, has stated that critical stakeholders in Nigeria’s ICT sector were not ready to proffer solutions to frequent cyber attacks in the country by hackers. He explained that among the nations of the world that were already recording advances in technology particularly in Cyber crimes, Nigeria has the worst ICT culture that would not made them ready to tackle cyber attacks.

In his opening address to kick-off a three-day 2018 legislative stakeholder conference on cyber security in Abuja on Tuesday, the lawmaker lamented the low turnout of critical stakeholders in ICT at the conference.

Expressing concerns over cyber attacks in Nigeria for which individuals and organizations have lost millions of dollars, Buhari stated that the conference would have afforded the Committee an opportunity to generate ideas for further legislation.

“Nigerians have the knowledge, we have the capacity, but we are not deploying them.”

“If we value technology development in line with the growth of the society, this hall would have been filled to capacity,” he noted.

Buhari chided the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for ignoring the conference, saying that they stand to benefit from the event.

“Imagine, we wrote to the Central Bank of Nigeria which is the biggest financial institutions and up till now they did not have the courtesy of replying us. It’s sad,” he said.

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