Federal government since the time of Goodluck Jonathan has been monitoring Social Media accounts of some Nigerians who the think maintains link with the insurgents.
With the partnership of an Israeli firm, Elbit System, they have been able to hack into emails, Facebook, Twitter accounts and even phone calls.
The project which according to sources was being managed by the Office of the National Security Adviser is costing Nigeria millions of dollar.
A source said, “The surveillance system is not being used to target everyone, as people may want to believe. It is only deployed to get intelligence on specific targets because it would be hard and difficult to use such system to spy on all Nigerians; the amount of data would be too huge and staggering for the assessors to sort and manage.
“Basically, the system is used to hack into emails and phones of targets, and the targets are those who are suspected of having ties with terrorists, whether Boko Haram, ISIS or any other criminal element.”
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