EFCC arrests 48 ‘Yahoo boys’
EFCC Zonal Head of Operations, Makurdi, Dr Johnson Babalola, who disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Makurdi, also said that 13 suspects were already under prosecution.Babalola said that the commission had secured 3 convictions so far, while the rest of the suspects were at various stages of investigations.
“One of the new phases of financial crime is internet fraud and it is a matter of common knowledge that Nigeria was represented negatively on the FBI list of internet fraudsters. “We have been monitoring the FBI list, even before the advent of that list, we have launched a manhunt on yahoo yahoo boys, and that has led to the arrest of 48 suspects.Babalola further disclosed that because of the deep-rooted corruption in the country, the commission was carrying out massive public enlightenment, targeting the youths in schools, motor parks, NYSC camps, among others.
He said that the people needed to do more as a nation and as individual families to mitigate criminality in the land.
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