I thought they had so much work on their hands with all the allegations of financial misappropriation flying here and there? Or was the EFCC act amended overnight to class criminal harassment, where cyber stalking falls under, a financial crime?
People still seem to be mixing things up, we aren't saying "cyber stalking" isn't a crime- in fact, any form of stalking is. What we are asking is, does the Economic and Financial Crime Commission have the jurisdiction to prosecute such a criminal act? Going by the name of the commission, this shouldn't be rocket science even to non-Lawyers like my humble self; it is not in anywhere near as complex as CCT vs Saraki.
I just stumbled on the relevant section/subsection of the constitution and it clearly stated that cyber-stalking is a crime that has to do more with the accused sending(to the target) information rather than receiving information.
The action of the cyber-stalker usually serves to incite the target and not necessarily extract sensitive info from him/her. Information sent could be pornographic images, hate messages etc. So this is clearly different from hacking or phishing that we are conversant with -which are still cybercrimes but this time around, involve the accused taking or receiving sensitive personal information from the target via fraudulent means online.
If you ask me, as a layman, I think some agents in the EFCC are trying
pervert the course of justice by arresting a stalker who was guilty of
criminal harassment which is clearly supposed to be a case for the
civilian police. Perversion of the course of justice in some countries
carries the life sentence! It's quite ironical that it's the law
enforcement that is guilty of this in this case.
-Simon Utsu
-Simon Utsu
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