Digital dangers: Why EFCC captured Abuja-based blogger, Abubakar Sidiq

Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, yesterday, captured Mr. Abubakar Sidiq Usman, a blogger, for offenses verging on digital stalking.Abdusidiq-Buhari According to Goggle, Cyber stalking is the rehashed utilization of electronic correspondences, especially the Internet, to irritate or scare somebody by sending undermining messages. The blogger is said to have utilized his presents on debilitate a few high-bothering Nigerians to do his offering or face negative distributions, inciting them to request of the EFCC to call him to arrange. Affirming his capture, the Spokesman for EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said Usman, was gotten by the commission's agents from his Kubwa habitation and promptly taken in for addressing at the office's central station in Abuja. The associate who is the distributer with a site distinguished as "Abusidiqu.com", was addressed over the claimed offense which the commission said contradicts areas of the Cyber Crime Act. The suspect was however admitted to managerial safeguard and would. On the off chance that sentenced, the blogger would be the third blogger to be summoned under the Cyber Crime Act, which was marked by previous President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011. It will be reviewed that two Nigerian bloggers Seun Oloketuyi and Emmanuel Ojo-were captured in 2015 for offenses which allegedly disregarded the digital law.


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