Leading Data Protection Compliance Organisation (DCPO) in Nigeria, DSPL, has mapped out strategy to help public institutions comply with the country’s data protection regulation. This strategy, the company said, was necessitated by the fact data breaches are likely to occur mostly in the public sector.
Chief Executive Officer of DSPL, Mr. Tunde Balogun, who disclosed this, said Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of government in the country handle the largest amount of personal data that could be easily compromised, thereby leading to a breach of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR). He said DSPL, a DCPO licensed by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has been driving the advocacy among public institutions to ensure that they comply with the NDPR.
“We are doing a lot of advocacy in the public sector because public institutions are the biggest processors of personal data anywhere in the world. Government data subject is the population. If you are in the private sector, your population is your customers. So if you only have 20,000 customers, that’s your entire population, but the government controls the data of all citizens from the local government to state and the Federal. So any public institution, any ministry, department agency, from the local government or whatever, will tend to handle personal data and the modern private sector,” Balogun said.
While noting that the company has strategically introduced solutions for the public sector, he said its products also cater to the need of organisations in the private sector. “Most of our toolkits, and most of our products, as well as most of our services are targeted at the public sector. But we also have products for the private sector as well, what we are saying is that most of our efforts, most of our strategy is to service the public sector because by nature and by default, they tend to be the biggest processors of personal information and most likely places where breach might happen,” he said.
Balogun, who is also the Convener of the Association of Licensed Data Protection Organisations of Nigeria, commended the efforts of the immediate past Director-General of NITDA, who is the current Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Dr. Isa Pantami, for coming up with the NDPR. According to him, Piper, which is a non-governmental organisation that ranks data protection regulation of each country all over the world through colours, had given the NDPR Amber, which shows it’s a moderate regulation.
“In Piper’s ranking, green is for strong regulation; amber is for moderate, and red is for weak regulation. NDPR was awarded Amber, which is moderate. There are some advanced countries in the world that their regulation was marked red; countries that are more advanced than us. So, if you want to look at it, NDPR in terms of comparison to other countries’ regulation is decent,” he said.
Balogun added that in terms of the structure of the implementation, the NDPR is unique in the world. “It is unique in the sense that it creates that layer of licensed firms to help organisations for implementation. There is nowhere in the world where that is done. That uniqueness is a masterstroke, very ingenious by the immediate past DG of NITDA and his team. All other African countries are now looking at our model” he explained.
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