The EFCC boss,
Ibrahim Magu has described the attitude of some mothers whose children are involved in yahoo-yahoo business as
worrisome and a distraction to Nation development.
He
said the saddest thing is that mothers of Yahoo boys have formed an
association to render moral support to their erring kids. Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu, is lamenting that mothers of suspected
internet fraudsters (popularly referred to as Yahoo Boys in street parlance)
have formed an association to burnish the reputation of their children and
provide them ample moral support.
“We are looking at how we can rehabilitate the
Yahoo Boys; these are young boys, who have graduated, who are in the
university. We want to see how we can sensitize them; how we can make them know
that the Yahoo Yahoo business is wrong,” Magu said during an interactive
session with stakeholders in Lagos on Thursday, October 31, 2019.
“And we are also appealing to their mothers.
The parents of these children, they have actually formed an association of
Yahoo Yahoo Mothers’ Association – Yes; they are there – Association of Mothers
of Yahoo Yahoo Boys.
“Some of them will say the father did not do anything; these
boys came, demolished the house and put up a new structure. If you see the cars
that we have recovered, you will think that we are in the car business. These
are all Yahoo Yahoo. All brands of cars – Jaguar, Rolls Royce,” Magu added.
