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THE Senate yesterday vowed to expose commercial banks being used by discredited Ponzi scheme, popularly called Mavrodi Mondial Movement (MMM). The upper chamber said the exposure of the commercial banks became necessary so that the affected banks will face appropriate sanctions. The Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Information, Communication Technology (ICT) and Cybercrime Senator Foster Ogola spoke at an interactive session with bank executives on Cybercrime. Ogola (Bayelsa West) noted that exposing the banks also go a long way to prevent such fraud in future. He said the Senate will soon come up with a legislation making digital education compulsory in both primary and secondary schools. The senator added that as part of the move to expose those involved in the MMM deal, an international expert in unearthing cyberspace and banking crimes is already in the country at the invitation of the Senate committee. Ogola explained that the essence of the interactive session was to gather the inputs of the stakeholders to the amendments that would soon be carried out on the Cybercrime Act ahead of the resumption of the Senate in two weeks. Stakeholders at the session, including the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and commercial banks, agreed on the need to create a centralised database anchored on National Identity Card as the best way of preventing hacking and cybercrime in the sector. Millions of Nigerians were defrauded over N13 billion through MMM.
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