I Am Sad Nigerian Security Agencies Aren’t Using NIN-SIM Linkage To Track Terrorists, Other Criminals —Ex-Minister, Pantami.

Following the abduction of six sisters and their father in the Bwari area council of the federal capital territory (FCT), and the killing of one of them, former minister of communications and digital economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has revealed that his friend has volunteered to pay the remaining N50 million out of the initial N60 million the bandits demanded. The former minister, who made the disclosure on his X handle yesterday, said as much as he does not support paying ransom to criminals, he has resorted to soliciting for the ransom after the kidnappers killed one of the sisters. Pantami also blamed security agencies for failing to track calls,
and other digital imprints of kidnappers after the completion of the synchronization of Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs) with National Identification Numbers (NINs), which was done in 2022 to help to shore up the nation’s security structure and identify the criminals terrorizing Nigeria.