INEC ICT team is not resilient enough to tackle system hacking - Mustapha Lecky (Details)

A previous National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mustapha Lecky, has said that the commission's Information Communication Technology (ICT) unit are not sufficiently capable to handle any mechanical disturbance in their framework.

Lecky made the case during a meeting on Channels Television, adding that INEC ought to have stayed with the manual cycle since it isn't yet developed technologically, rather than promising to communicate election results continuously.

He said; 

“They tried those things in the US (United States), you saw what happened, they were hacking it. So, how many people do you have in the INEC? I worked in INEC, I know the ICT guys, good guys, good ladies that work there, they are not as resilient to be able to rise up to the challenge if their system is being hacked. 

“The staff there don’t have that kind of competence to be able to respond to any manner of disruption technologically. Just (a) few guys that are there, you talk about advanced countries like the US that were struggling and then you are talking about Nigeria, how are they going to rise to it?

“So, the issue of over-promising damaged the reputation of INEC and that should not have happened.”