A forensic skilled, Dr. Barbara Odoh, has referred to as on the Nigeria Police and the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) to take pressing motion towards mental property theft, lamenting the dearth of enforcement within the nation.
Talking at a press convention in Abuja on Friday, Odoh decried what she described as a disturbing rise in plagiarism and mental fraud, warning that weak safety for innovators poses a critical menace to Nigeria’s digital and inventive economic system.
Sharing her personal expertise, she revealed that in 2021, she developed a venture referred to as Bsafe Transact, a platform designed to boost safe transactions throughout cell and internet functions.
However after sharing particulars of her venture with a authorities company in a botched partnership, the venture was stolen from her. In line with her, a social media influencer to her dismay, had allegedly repurposed the Bsafe Transact idea verbatim, successfully claiming it as their very own.
Odoh, who vowed to reclaim her mental property, urged authorities to strengthen mental property enforcement, warning that unchecked plagiarism may stifle innovation and discourage creators from contributing to Nigeria’s digital economic system.
“I need to guarantee you that I cannot relent on this wrestle. It’s my deeply held perception that I need to demand what’s rightly mine, and I’ll pursue justice with each fibre of my being,” she declared.
