PREMIUM TIMES is deeply concerned about this festering social anomie, which is clearly the product of moral atrophy in a society largely adrift.
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Both the current and past EFCC leadership have had to decry the alarming increase in cybercrimes involving youths in the country. As of November 2023, the commission’s Director, Legal and Prosecution Department, Sylvanus Tahir, revealed that 1,084 cybercrime and 395 Advanced Fee Fraud convictions were secured.
“The glamorisation of wealth plays a significant role in normalising and legitimising online romance fraud…” argues Suleman Lazarus, a Lagos State University cybercrime expert. We agree.This bizarre social order needs to be remedied. It is a task that requires collective social consciousness of the broken moral fabrics of the society and the need for aggressive values reorientation. A political leadership that shows the light for people to follow is pivotal in this effort.
Ours shouldn’t be a society in which youths revile the dignity of labour, trade or artisanal apprenticeship that could equip them with skills-set to be productive citizens, while preferring the easy way to life. Nigeria’s image has been so sullied abroad to the extent that securing visas or travel documents to some countries are either difficult or outlawed.
A case in point was the release of the Russians arrested in the MT African Pride vessel involved in oil theft in 2005. Again, Tigran Gambaryan, a US citizen, and the Head of Binance’s Financial Crime Compliance, was freed after eight months in detention last October, after “taking into consideration some critical international and diplomatic issues,” the EFCC lawyer, R.U Adaba, had told the court.
Youths embracing this burgeoning underworld haven of scam and its attendant unearned wealth, are advised to quit as it is ruinous. Hustle Kingdom schools, as cyber training networks are code-named, can never replace centres for skills acquisition, secondary schools or higher institutions where focused youths are trained for a better future. While there is the prevalence of economic hardship, no doubt, but this cannot be an excuse for anyone to take to crime for survival.
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