At Last! Senate Prescribes 7yr Imprisonment for "Yahoo Boys"

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The Senate on Thursday prescribed a 
penalty of seven years imprisonment for cyber crimes and online fraud 
perpetrators in Nigeria. The decision of the Senate on cyber crimes 
bill, sponsored by Senator Adegbenga Kaka, was sequel to the 
recommendation of the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Human Rights.<br /><br />    
 The bill, tagged: “A Bill for an Act to Provide for the Prohibition, 
Prevention, Detection, Response, Investigation and Prosecution of 
Cybercrimes and for Other Related Matters 2014”, among other objectives,
 seeks to punish the interception of data, system interference and 
misuse of devices.<br /><br />      It backs punishment of all kinds of 
computer-related fraud, computer-related forgery, offences relating to 
pornography, cyber-stalking and cyber-squatting, just as it seeks to 
promote cyber security, protection of computer systems and networks, 
electronic communications, data and computer programmes, intellectual 
property and privacy rights.<br /><br />      The bill also states that 
anyone who commits fraud using a computer system or network with the 
intention of obtaining computer data, securing access to any programme, 
commercial or industrial secrets or classified information will upon 
conviction be sentenced to seven years jail term or a fine of N7 million
 or both.<br /><br />     Furthermore, anyone found guilty of possessing a 
manipulative device, unauthorised automatic teller machine card, 
damaging a computer with the intention to defraud, trafficking in any 
password to defraud customers or financial institutions will be 
sentenced to seven years imprisonment or a N7 million fine.<br /><br />     
 Similarly, any person or organisation who intentionally traffics in any
 password or similar information through a computer unlawfully with the 
intention to defraud public and private interests within or outside 
Nigeria will be liable upon conviction to a fine of N7 million or three 
years imprisonment.<br /><br />     The bill spells out a three-year jail 
term or N2 million fine for anyone who knows that a crime has been 
committed in his premises or cybercafe and fails to report to relevant 
authorities within seven days.<br /><br />    While it provides for 
compulsory registration of all cybercafes as business concerns with 
Computer Professionals’ Registration Council in addition to business 
name registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission, it also spells 
out three years jail term or a fine of N1 million for anyone who 
perpetrates electronic fraud through a cybercafe.<br /><br />   In the 
situation where the fraud is found to have been perpetrated in 
connivance with the owner(s) of the cybercafe, such owners shall be 
liable to a fine of N2 million or three years jail term.<br /><br />     A 
stiffer punishment of 10 years imprisonment without an option of fine 
awaits anyone who commits any offences in relation to critical national 
information infrastructure and 15 years imprisonment for any person who 
commits such a crime resulting in bodily harm and life imprisonment for 
such crime if it results in death of another person.<br /><br />     In his 
remarks after the passage of the bill, the Deputy Senate President, Ike 
Ekweremadu, who presided, explained that enacting anti-cyber crime law 
became important because there was no computer at the time penal and 
criminal code came into force.<br /><br />He said:<br /><br /> “With the passage
 of this bill today and appropriate application of its prescribed laws 
against cyber crimes and other related matters, Nigeria will henceforth 
be seen as a country seriously stamping out cyber crimes, which to us 
here at the Senate and by extension, the National Assembly, is a major 
milestone in our lawmaking enterprise.<br />
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At Last! Senate Prescribes 7yr Imprisonment for "Yahoo Boys"

The Senate on Thursday prescribed a penalty of seven years imprisonment for cyber crimes and online fraud perpetrators in Nigeri...