The National Commissioner for the Nigeria Data Protection Commission, Dr Vincent Olatunji, has disclosed that the Commission will prosecute the Chief Executive Officer of any government agency found guilty of data breaches.
He added some investigations were concluded, with appropriate sanctions meted but did not disclose the names of organisations sanctioned.
He added, “We have dealt seriously with them. Currently, Sokoloan that is like the arrowhead of such organisations, we issued fines and are currently discussing with them. We have investigated about seven banks. Some are ongoing and we have concluded some. Those that we have completed, we have issued sanctions to them.”
He said, “What the law says is that they should pay two per cent of their gross earnings but looking at our economy in Nigeria, we are preaching ease of doing business. Some of them if you tell them to pay that fine, that means, in fact, they confess to us, that almost all their top management staff will go. So, what we are saying is that it depends on the impact of the breach on the data subject.
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