Why Internet fraudsters are fleeing Ekiti – Ex Senator
Former Ekiti Central senator, Babafemi Ojudu, has said intensified operations by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against suspected internet fraudsters have triggered a mass exodus of young cybercrime suspects from Ekiti State, leaving hotels, lounges, apartments and other businesses in Ado Ekiti struggling with dwindling patronage.
However, Mr Ojudu, ex-Special Adviser on Political Matters to the late President Muhammadu Buhari who served directly under then-Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, said many of the young men popularly known as “Yahoo boys” have since been abandoning the state for cities such as Ibadan, Akure, Osogbo and Lagos to avoid the intensified crackdown.
Mr Ojudu, in a post shared on Facebook on Tuesday, said the recent anti-graft operations had exposed what he described as the extent to which parts of the state’s urban economy had become reliant on the spending power of suspected internet fraudsters.
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