Hackers Unsettle Akwa Ibom Governor

Hackers have unsettled Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State as they kept intruding in his phone line in an attempt to hack it.

A government statement confirmed the development and said Police are now trailing the hackers who have already cloned the governor’s WhatsApp number.

Ekerete Udon, Press Secretary to the Governor said in a statement Wednesday that, “Law enforcement agents have been duly alerted and are on the trail of the perpetrators of this ignoble act.”

He said that the hackers had developed “a carefully orchestrated fraudulent posts on some social media platforms, where some criminal elements have cloned the WhatsApp number of the Governor of Akwa Ibom State with intent to defraud unsuspecting members of the public

“We hereby warn that any message appearing to solicit funds by these imposters should be totally discountenanced by the general public as they do not emanate from the Governor.”