(http://peoplesdailyng.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Reps-and-senetors-300x187.jpg) (http://peoplesdailyng.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Reps-and-senetors.jpg)By Umar Muhammad Puma
The House of Representatives yesterday mandated its committees on ICT, Justice and Anti-corruption to investigate the alleged award of over $40 million Internet spying contract to a foreign company, to monitor computers and Internet activities of over 45 million Nigerians on the web.
In a motion under matters of urgent public importance raised by Ibrahim Shehu Gusau, noted the contract was reported to have been awarded secretly and in wanton disregard of due process, fiscal responsibility act and Bureau of Public Procurement Act 2007.
He said that the award of the contract violated the basic privacy provision in chapter four of section 37 of the 1999 Constitution as amended.
According to him, the contract under the guise of intelligence gathering and national security may not be the answer to the glaring security challenges of today's Nigeria, stressing that the right to private and family life would be violated and breached.
The motion was unanimously adopted by the House and asked the Federal Government to suspend all actions with regard to the contract pending investigation.
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