It’s exactly
2.11am, I’m all jittery, nervous, restless and can’t contain myself all because
I'm watching The Call (2013) with Halle Berry playing the lead role and Morris
Chestnut’s love interest. At a point, I had to do a little laundry while watching
just to dissipate some of the charged energy.
For those
who haven't seen the movie, it's about a serial murderer who kidnaps young
blond girls, torments and buries them out in a prairie but he sure met his
waterloo when he kidnapped Casey who calls 911 from the trunk of the moving car
she was stashed in and that's where the action and my misery started. First of
all, She was using a disposable phone,
you know those off the counter type they use outside the country which made it
difficult to trace her exact location. Anyway, the movie made me think deeper and
faster than I ordinarily would have done, like:
1. NCC and Telecoms have practically
forced us to register our sims, so what next?
2. How will this collective information
be used and for who's benefit?
3. Apart from the instant photos and thumbprints
taken at the registration centers, how sure are they that the rest of the
information given are correct? Like Address and Occupation.
4. Does Nigeria have the satellite coverage
to track a call and exact location at every given time?
5 5. Can kidnap victims be able to call
emergency numbers and get an immediate positive response? I'm not talking of a
state owned facility but a national one.
6 6. Is there a way you can call up a car
plate number and it shows details of the car and owner in Nigeria? Or even call
up someone's name and it shows his personal and car details?
7. How smart are our emergency operators
and how smart can you be if you found yourself in a hostage situation? can you think outside the box?
8. Do you realize if stashed in the
trunk of a car that you can actually yank off the tail light wires from inside, kick off the tail light itself and wave out through the hole so other road users can see someone's locked in?
9
9. Lastly can Nigeria and Nigerians be
smart enough to articulate these grey areas within our security system and do
the needful?
American movies make us think deep. Thank God our very own home movies are beginning to catch up too. There is so much to learn from spy, detective, and crime movies. Our movie industry (also speaking to myself as a writer) should take a tip from these guys.
ReplyDeleteAbout the telecom guys. Well well, my sister you know us now. Every new and decorated idea has a fraudulent motive. What happened to the National I.D card initiative? This country has no intentions what so ever to do anything positive about security.
Well, em... We have a weather satellite, I think. Maybe a caller's location can be identified via weather condition.
ReplyDelete- call came in from a sunny region
- call came in from a raining zone
- call came in from a thunder storm locality
- call came in from a cloudy area
- call came in during "uguru"...
Sypho 1
are u a comedian? ILNSPDP (I laugh nearly shout PDP)!
Delete1. NCC succeeded in getting people's contact for adverts, since after registration i get adverts like 89 in a day, i wake up everyday to deleting chunks from my phone.
ReplyDelete2. there is nothing like emergency in naija
3. we have not reach the level of calling plates numbers, driver's license or driver's name. but very soon we will have no option, technology will take us there, if we like it or not!
Crazy guy Sipho... Lol
ReplyDeleteThe truth is, everything is the US and the West relies on one thing. A reliable electronic Database. Do we have any? Yes and no... Who has one in the Nigeria? The Banks and by extension the CBN. Does the law enforcement agencies do? No, they dont. And that's what ultimately matters. I got a security number from MTN and accessed my online MTN Profile. Despite all the information I provided when I registered my SIM, I only saw my name in there, and I asked, 'what's the point'? Casey could be rescue because she has an identity. In Nigeria, we hardly do... But of course, we can kick out taillights and reallights. I trust we can.
ReplyDeleteI jst dey SMH for nigeria. We still hv a long way to go. My prayer is that we get there. When I see foreign movies and try a comparison with what Naija has to offer, whew!
ReplyDeleteIt is well
Wonderful movie review and comparison to our social milieu, the truth is that Nigeria presently has the capacity to achieve more than half the security measures you mentioned, but we are just lazy to do it. Most of the data they collected have been dumped somewhere, there's no data base for anything on a local, state or national scale, most things are on paper in this day and age...I remember while in school, I came to the conclusion that the Nigerian university system with its archaic data system was purposed to make students fail, everything has to be a struggle, violence, shout, halla, tackle, shine eye...For instance, apart from the National ID card, Voter's Registration and SIM Reg that has run on a national scale, most Universities and private schools have a database of students on an electronic level, that in itself can be useful for somethings. The crazy part is that the security agents now rely on Facebook and Twitter to track crooks (na una papa build am?) Skuri
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