Nigeria's Drug enforcement agency subjected to "mafia-like" attack (4)
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I would never presume to suggest how a sovereign country prevents
this type of thing, more so if I have never even visited. I can only
suggest that one looks at other parts of the world where this type of
thing does not happen and try to discern what it is that is in opera-
tion in those societies that is not in operation in Nigeria.
With the breakdown in law enforcement in my own country, the storming
of businesses by armed robbers during daylight hours is becoming such
a common occurrence that my comment, of "a scenario of things to
come" was intended as sincere warning to our own regulatory body, on
which I served for many years. The greatest losses in these robberies
is the loss of confidence and the work that is destroyed in the proc-
ess while it creates a class of lawless people available for "revenge
attacks" against a body performing its function, that of protecting
the public. Even if only the computer equipment is stolen the damage
to the work of an organization is incalculably more than the material
loss.
One small obvious but commonly ignored item is that computer files
should be backed up regularly and stored off-site. A number of busi-
nesses found themselves unable to recreate their accounting records
and had major financial losses as a result of not being able to trace
what clients owed them.
Antoine van Gelder
Pretoria, South Africa
mailto:avg@tocmed.com
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