Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has threatened to sue the President Muhammadu Buhari for giving security agencies approval to access the database of the National Identity Management Commission in the course of carrying out their duties.
The NIMC currently warehouses the data of the over 73 million Nigerians who have linked their National Identity Number (NIN) with their SIM.
But SERAP argued that the president’s approval negates the rights to privacy of subscribers.
“President Buhari must immediately rescind his reported approval for security agencies to access people’s personal details via NIN-SIM linkage, without due process of law,” SERAP tweeted on Friday.
It continued: “This is an attack on our rights to privacy and dignity.
“We’re suing to challenge this illegality,” SERAP further tweeted.