Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi on Wednesday said some online human rights activists in the country are corrupt.
The Force PRO also said cyber crime is a big problem Nigeria as a country is battling with.
The Police image maker spoke at the 2024 lecture series organised by the Delta Online Publishers Forum, DOPF, in Asaba.
Adejobi noted that some of the online activists have compromised their integrity as human right activists due to their actions.
“They appear on social media platforms singing their own praises claiming to have recovered monies from some security agents,” he said.
“In the real sense some percentages of the money they claimed to have recovered from Policemen and other security agents go into their pockets but no one is talking about.”
Speaking further, he noted that the cyber space is full of cyber bullying, romance scam, internet fraud, cyber prostitution and other criminal activities.
The Police spokesman expressed concern that so many youths use their God given knowledge the wrong way by engaging in cyber crime, which he said is an offence in line with the Cyber Crime 2015 Act(2024) as amended
Adejobi also pointed out that there are cases where internet fraudsters scammed officers.
“They clone their accounts and use it to collect monies from officers.”
He urged journalists, especially online media practitioners, to get their facts right before publishing by calling for confirmation to balance their reportage.
He warned that failure to do so is contrary to the provisions of the Cyber Crime Act.
Speaking on the the theme, ‘Security Challenges: Finding local implementable solutions’, he observed that Nigeria as a country is bedeviled with different security problems.
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