Bandits use special technology to evade tracking – Minister

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Bosun Tijani, minister of communications, innovation and digital economy, says bandits use “a special kind of technology” to make calls and evade surveillance.

The minister spoke in a chat with Seun Okinbaloye on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Friday night.Tijani said the monitoring of bandits’ calls for intelligence purposes is “more technical” than Nigerians assume.The minister said the criminals bounce calls off multiple towers to throw off security agents tracking their communication.

“The reason why the president actually pushed us to invest in towers in those areas is that we realised that there was a special kind of technology that they [the bandits] were using to call,” Tijani said.

“They were not using the normal towers; they bounce calls off multiple towers. That is why they enjoy living in areas that [are] unconnected.”

Tijani said the federal government is working on upgrading the country’s satellites in space to improve security monitoring. Thecable