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Good morning.☀️

Over a month ago, school children in Oyo State, Nigeria, were kidnapped. This was another incident in the spate of kidnappings in the country. At TechCabal, we sought to answer a question that most Nigerians asked themselves. The NIN-SIM linkage was touted to help with identification and locating the people who had linked their SIMs. Why weren’t security agencies able to track these elements?

We found the answer.

—Zia