CAN OUR PRIVACY BE PROTECTED EVEN WHEN THAT SECRECY COVERS UP A CRIME?

CAN OUR PRIVACY BE PROTECTED EVEN WHEN THAT SECRECY COVERS UP A CRIME?
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria Ricky Tarfa has reportedly filed a suit against the EFCC, and MTN for alleged violations of his privacy. HE was unhappy that the MTN made his call log available to the EFCC which revealed his private communication with a Court Judge handling a case affecting his client.
I have no problem with the protection of anybody's privacy, but should such right to privacy be allowed to obstruct justice, or protect a culprit from justice? Recently, a Port Harcourt guy brutally lured his Igbo girlfriend to a hotel room and murdered her. He was the last person to communicate with her. He therefore, deleted all the text messages he sent to her from his mobile phone, including the hotel address that he sent to her. By doing so, he thought he had deleted all the clues that could link him to her death. He also deleted all records of their conversation on her phone, which he stole after killing her.
Unfortunately for him, his relationship with the victim was known to third parties, including family members. He therefore, became a suspect, and he was positively identified by the hotel management as the guy that brought the victim there, and left the hotel without the victim.
However, the police still needed more clues to link him to her death. After he was tracked down, the police recovered her phone from the suspect, but he deleted all records of their communication on his phone and hers. The police sought the help of MTN to restore the messages and calls log. That was how the culprit was exposed with the help of MTN.
Now, if the MTN had refused to cooperate in the name of protecting customer privacy, a murderer would have escaped justice. For me, the right to privacy is not absolute and inviolable, especially where privacy is used to cover up a criminal activity. If private communication obstructs justice, or perverts the course of justice, should the right to privacy override the desire or the duty to expose a crime? If privacy gives immunity to a criminal, then such right to privacy harms the larger interest of the society. The right to privacy should not be set in stone; it has to have acceptable boundaries or limits, or else, it may be harmfully abused by forcing telecom companies to cover up criminal communication.
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