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Museveni told Parliament on September 8, 2003 that he listened in on a conversion between Ogwal
and a rebel commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army.
Mr Geofrey Ekanya
(Tororo) named MTN in The Monitor story of March
25 2004 as
a company responsible for tapping legislatures’ telephone conversations
and turns the information to Security agencies.
The spokesperson for the telecommunication company, Mr Philip Besimiire, denied the
allegations saying that the company does not have the technique. He did not
talk about the legalities, but only cited the capabilities. What if they had
the technique?
True or not, MTN subscribers might opt for services of other
companies. No one wants a police
state. This could as well
compromise the security of the nation if a foreign owned company could have the
technique to listen in telephone conversations made by our head of state or
other leaders in the country.
- MTN
subscribers should take the allegations seriously and demand a full
investigation of the act or boycott the services of MTN.
- Parliament
must act now and review laws that govern our telecommunication industry to
severely punish those who evade our privacy with such impunity.
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