CEO ‘REPORTS’ EMPLOYEES TO POLICE INTELLIGENCE

MBABANE – Muzikayise Dube, the CEO of Category A public enterprise ENIDC, is spitting fire.

Three days after going to court to stop the Times SUNDAY from publishing an exposé on a deal between the Eswatini National Industrial Development Corporation and an Israel entity known as AquaMaof Aquaculture Technologies LTD, the Chief Executive Officer has allegedly  now told his employees that he has reported them to the Police Intelligence. Dube suspects his staff of having hacked the parastatal’s computer systems and distributed confidential information to various platforms. This publication has seen a memorandum dated July 8, 2020 addressed to all ENIDC staff members through which he informs them about the management of confidentiality in the corporation. “It has come to our knowledge that a considerable amount of confidential information on the corporation’s transactions, projects and communication has been stolen from the office. This information includes classified emails communication with clients and partners, clients’ files, meetings’ records and payments paper trail, among others,” reads the memo.

Stolen information

It continues: “It is suspected that the stolen information may involve hacking of the corporation’s systems including the server and personal computers. At the latest instance, the corporation has engaged services of the Police Intelligence to investigate and bring the perpetrators to book.” Deputy Police Information and Communications Officer Inspector Nosipho Mnguni said a case in this regard had not been opened in any of their police stations. She said this could most probably be because Dube was not looking to open a case against anyone but only seeking assistance from the police.

Wondered

“The Intelligence Department said they would not be the one to deal with such a matter but probably the Fraud Department would. But the Fraud Department also said they didn’t have such a case. That’s why I suspect he hadn’t opened a case per se but engaged the police to assist him,” Mnguni said. She wondered why such a matter would be reported to the Intelligence Department instead of the Fraud Department. Meanwhile, in the memorandum, Dube told the employees that there was no doubt of the immeasurable extent of the damage “this irresponsible behaviour has done to the Corporation’s business. “Without implicating any staff member, we are reminded that theft of official information, data and written materials, and sharing it with external parties illegally (without permission) infringes on the corporation’s Privacy Policy and Code of Ethics Policy. It is also a criminal offence, and cannot be tolerated,” adds the memo. It is worth noting that the Kingdom of Eswatini does not have legislation on cyber security that could address issues such as hacking of computer systems.

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