The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has denied tracking or leaking the telephone conversations of citizens.
The denial is coming on the heels of allegations that the calls of Nigerians may be unsafe with the commission.
Those claims were made online following last Saturday’s publication of a purported phone call between the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and the presiding Bishop of Living Faith International, Bishop David Oyedepo.
The Labour Party has dismissed the published audio conversation as a deep fake, and some of the party’s supporters say it was heavily doctored, but not a few persons have wondered how a phone call that was reportedly neither recorded by Obi nor Bishop Oyedepo was made public.
This led to the allegations that the NCC may have tracked and leaked the audio conversation.
But in a statement released on Tuesday, the commission denied doing any of the two.
“By the provisions of the Nigerian Communication Act (NCA) 2003 and other extant laws of the federation, the commission does not and cannot "track" or "leak" telephone conversations of anyone,” the NCC’s director of public affairs, Reuben Mouka, wrote.
He said the allegations have been reported to the appropriate authorities for investigation.
