Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar says the hack of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) website is “suspicious.”
In a statement released on Friday, Abubakar said the
development “adds up to the bad tidings that have characterised the President
Bola Tinubu administration”.
On Wednesday, NBS announced that its
website—www.nigerianstat.gov.ng—was hacked.
The agency asked members of the public to ignore any report
published on the website until its recovery.
The hack of the website occurred 24 hours after the agency
published its crime experience and security perception survey report.
In the report, the NBS said Nigerians paid N2.23 trillion as
ransom in one year between May 2023 and April 2024.
‘POLITICISATION OF
DATA IS UNPRECEDENTED’
Abubakar said subjecting data harvested by NBS to political
consideration is “counterproductive”.
“The development, which is coming on the heels of the recent
data published on the website of the @NBS_Nigeria on Crime Experience and
Security Perception Survey (CESPS), underscores the credibility crisis of the
current administration,” the statement reads.
“These are strange times in Nigeria, and it is hoped that
the situation at hand is not an underhand attempt to pigeonhole the integrity
of data majorly used for planning and development and research purposes.
“Subjecting data and statistics such as those harvested,
analysed, and released by the NBS to sexing up or political considerations is
counterproductive.
“That is why the claim that the website of the National
Bureau of Statistics was hacked into, the very first time in its history,
should be of concern to the fidelity of the stats it releases to the public.
“Moreover, the coincidence of this so-called hack coming
only shortly after the release of damning stats on security is suspicious.”
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