Also, an expert in Communications and Information Systems Engineering, Professor Elizabeth Onwuka, affirmed that there is available technology to track calls and movement of the holder of such phones. “The technology is there, provided there is authorisation from the appropriate authorities,” she added.
On very few occasions, the police tracked some kidnappers and were able to rescue the victims, but it’s only a drop in the ocean. Investigations further revealed that the police have largely been unable to accurately track the kidnappers because only the ‘zero coordinates tracking system’ has the capacity, but it is not adequate across the country.
When asked why this initiative has not helped, the officer noted that the NIN-SIM linkage would have been helpful in combating kidnapping but for the dearth of the right equipment and resources. While this snag continued, many people were kidnapped and some even died. A resident of Zamfara State, Alhaji Sani Gyare, toldat the time that when his seven children were kidnapped and he was contacted to pay N50m, he gave their phone number to the police but “unfortunately, nothing happened.”
“That is why you see some fraudulent persons in Nigeria calling with a foreign number, and they are here. How did that happen? There is more to this kidnapping business, but it’s easy to blame the police. Some bypass the system, and so you won’t find such numbers on any system. Meanwhile, in 2021 when the NCC, on the request of four governors, suspended mobile telecommunications network in their states for a few months, as part of measures to curtail the raging banditry in the North-West, the bandits, according to verified sources, including government officials, simply switched to Thuraya, while some used mobile networks from neighbouring Niger Republic. With such options available, the bandits continued their criminal activities.
Our correspondent had in the first part of this report, published on April 9, 2022, detailed how government’s failure to adequately deploy unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as drones, and other technologies had enabled kidnappers and other criminals to continue their trade.
You can't have pantman as communication minister and sim card tracking will work. That's why he's there. To help his coterrorists.
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