If new reports are to be believed, then Elbits
System, an Isreali Electronic Defence firm,
has finally arrived Abuja to begin the
installation of a $40million internet
facility...which will spy on the people of
Nigeria on behalf of the Nigerian government.
Premium Times reports that the internet
monitoring company was contracted by the
Federal Govt in April this year to install a
comprehensive spying facility that will help
them monitor its citizens.
The installation will go ahead despite
public outcry and an ongoing legislative
probe of the project that followed the
leak of the contract by this newspaper.
The installation is also taking place in
complete disregard of the National
Assembly which ordered the government
to suspend all actions on the contract
pending the outcome of a planned
investigation." Premium Times reports
The presidency had mulled cancellation of the
contract after it summoned Elbit Officials,
accusing them of not being discreet enough
in the handling of the contract.
The Goodluck Jonathan administration
secretly, and in open violation of lawful
contracting procedures, awarded the Israeli
firm, with headquarters in Haifa, a $40million
contract to help it spy on citizens’ computers
and Internet communications under the guise
of intelligence gathering and national
security.
Elbit announced it won the contract back in
April, in a global press release, where its
general manager, Yehuda Vered, opaquely
announced that “Elbit Systems will supply its
Wise Intelligence Technology (WiT) system to
an unnamed country in Africa under a new
$40 million contract … for Intelligence
Analysis and Cyber Defense.”
Sources within the administration informed
PREMIUM TIMES that the officials arrived
Abuja over the weekend (two weekends ago)
and had installed the “big brother” device at
the headquarters of the National Intelligence
Agency in Abuja.
A team of about 20 Nigerian intelligence
officers are currently training in Haifa, Israel
– headquarters of Elbit Systems – and are
expected to run the spying equipment after
its installation.
The first batch of the intelligence trainees are
due back in the country next week, our
sources say.
Elbit says it will take it two years to complete
the project, by which time it claimed, the
administration will have “a highly advanced
end-to-end solution, [to] supports every stage
of the intelligence process, including the
collection of the data from multiple sources,
databases and sensors, processing of the
information, supporting intelligence
personnel in the analysis and evaluation of
the information and disseminating the
intelligence to the intended recipient…[that]
will be integrated with various data sources,
including Elbit Systems’ Open Source
Intelligence (OSINT) solution and Elbit
Systems’ PC Surveillance Systems (PSS), an
advance solution for covert intelligence
gathering.”
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