Legislations on Cyber Terrorism in Tanzania: A Reality Or Myth?

Abstract

The development of ICT technology is customarily accompanied with a number of profits to the community. In recent years there has been growing attentiveness about cyber terrorism and the need to implement legislation and enforcement measures to address and indict committers in planning and organizing a terrorist attack. A number of perpetrators can plan and execute attack irrespective of where they are positioned around the world. That being the case the growing number of cyber terrorist activities highlight the difficulty in terms of tracing and prosecuting perpetrators of cyber terrorism in digital world. The lack of cohesive legal frame work has resulted in some individual to pursue on causing cyber terrorist threats. It’s evident that existing legal statues are not effective in prosecuting and combating cyber terrorism thus a cohesive legal frame work is required to meet the comprehensiveness guideline regarding cyber terrorism since the delay in establishing a legal frame work to address cyber terrorism will send a clear message to cyber terrorist that the government have limited or no capacity to legally pursue them. Despite of it not physically seen in our country but as long as we are already exposed to the digital world, then anything is possible. We have to understand that, cyberspace does not respect borders and as the fact that we have experience a number of terror attacks in our country in traditional way that does not mean the same cannot be engaged in digital world. This manuscript intends to explore the scope of legal framework in combating cyber terrorism in Tanzania in comparison with other jurisdiction (South Africa, United Kingdom, India and United States of America).