He rose suddenly from the IT World, conquering the corridors of celebrities in Tanzania due to his ability to post damning pictures online with some of these pictures showing celebs and politicians naked, before he was nabbed this week in Essex, UK.
The man behind the reckless website that has highly damaged the reputation of over 6,000 Tanzanians including the head of state was arrested in a well planned move coordinated by the Tanzania intelligence community and their counterparts from UK and Israel, The Guardian on Sunday has learnt.
According to the well placed sources within the Interpol, just a few days after the report that damning cropped pictures purportedly showing the head of state were posted online, the intelligence communities tasked its IT experts to track down the culprit behind the defamatory website.
To nab the host of the website, local IT experts from the intelligence communities contracted their counterparts from Israel who helped tracing the real host and author of the popular website known as ‘www.zeutamu.com’.
After conducting a thorough investigation to various local Internet Service Providers, it was concluded that the server that host the website originated in the United Kingdom.
This, according to sources, was reached after analysing over one hundred posts posted in the website whereby their origins finally showed the country’s code used in hosting internet services.
Following that link, local IT experts from Intelligence Communities contacted their counterparts in UK mainly from MI5, in order to establish the person behind the website.
The investigation within UK was conducted by experts whereby finally the real suspect behind the website was located after his Internet Service Provider was identified.
The ISP provider was interrogated thoroughly and finally the experts established the real identity of the man whose website has defamed and offended a total of 6,080 prominent Tanzanians, including politicians, celebrities and others.
The dramatic move by the local intelligence communities is the first to be done in East Africa in cracking down online crimes, sending an alarming message to the growing number of bloggers inside and outside the country.
Perhaps the most disturbing question is that the man behind this damning website is a highly trained IT expert who was educated by taxpayers’ money and has a link to some of the prominent political figures in the country.
The investigators are still conducting thorough investigations to establish other local suspects who have been collaborating with the blogger to post damning and defamatory pictures online during the past few months.
After concluding their findings, the investigators tipped Interpol as required by international law in order to arrest the suspect.
Interpol working on the tips from intelligence officials raided the home of the suspect early this week in Essex, UK, and arrested the suspect who is a Tanzanian national.
The Tanzanian national aged 39 years old is an expert in IT with strong command in both written and oral English, Chinese and Swahili languages.
“When you rattle the snake get prepared for its reactions…You can’t mess around with people including the head of state and expect to walk freely, ” a senior official from the Interpol told The Guardian on Sunday under conditions of anonymity.
SOURCE: GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY
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TAMKO LA WILIAM MALECHELA
Wakuu kumekuwa na tetesi ya hii habari kwa muda sasa, na hasa wiki iliyopita toka Jumapili nimejaribu sana kufuatilia kwa makini sana hii ishu kwa kujadiliana na wananchi mbali mbali wanaoifahamu, na ni muda mfupi tu uliopita nimeongea na mwenyewe mhusika akiwa akiwa anaendesha gari barabarani akitokea Birmingham kwenda nyumbani kwake,
- Na as a man na pia kama ndugu, nikamuuliza swali moja tu is it true or not, akanijibu kwamba he has absolutely nothing to do with it, na kwamba never katika anytime kuna yoyote kutoka kwenye authorities either ya Tanzania au ya UK amewahi kumuuliza anything on the ishu, sasa kama ndugu I take him at his word kwamba he is telling the truth and nothing but the whole truth.
- Nimeamua kuongea kama bina-adam, tena against ushauri wa wengi sana kwamba I should stay out of this mess, my heart goes kwa the victims wa hiyo kitu ambayo kwangu hata kuitaja nasikia chills mwilini kutokana na habari nyingi mbaya sana nilizowahi kuzisikia, binafsi nimewahi kuichungulia mara mbili tu, kwanza walipodhalilishwa marafiki wa karibu sana na familia yangu, na pili alipodhalilishwa Mheshimiwa rais, na ninamshukuru sana Mwenyezi Mungu kwa kuweza kufanikisha kuondolewa kabisa kwa hiyo kitu ambayo ninaiita mkono wa shetani.
- Lisemwalo lipo kama halipo basi linakuja, ni matumaini yangu kwamba authorities yetu wako on the top of this ishu, ni kukamatwa tu kwa owner ndiyo njia pekee ya kuelekea kwenye healing na recovery kwa victims ambao nasikia ni wengi sana wa hiyo kitu, ninawaombea Mungu awape baraka na spirit of quick recovery ingawa pia with the presha toka kwa pilato na this ishu in the last few weeks, baada ya hii topic nitajiweka kando rasmi na mitandao in general mpaka huko mbele ya safari ambako sijui itakuwaje na ni lini.
Ahsante Sana Wakuu.
William. - Community Organizer (CO)
2009/6/19 Y
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