We’re dealing with officers who work with ‘Yahoo boys’ – SP Benjamin Hundeyin says

OlamideJune 15, 2022

In a chat with Daily trust, The Nigeria Police Force said is aware and punishing officials that work with internet fraudsters popularly known as yahoo boys.

SP Benjamin Hundeyin, Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, who admitted that some officers connive with yahoo boys in a chat with Daily Trust on its Twitter Spaces on Wednesday June 15, revealed that anytime such offenders are caught, they are dealt with severely.

He said;

“In every organisation, you would have those officers that would always undermine the efforts of the organisation. I’ve heard about officers working in cahoot with internet fraudsters. These officers are treated worse than the internet fraudsters.

“If a law enforcement officer engages in a crime, he receives more punishment than an ordinary citizen because he is expected to know more.

“All the time when we get to know about such officers, they are severely dealt with.”

Hundeyin persuade the public to provide the force with information whenever they hear of such cases.

In other news, Angry Irate youth have set fire to the newly built house that is reported to be owned by a suspected internet fraudster, identified as Ifeanyi Osuji over alleged defilement and mysterious de@th of a 14-year-old girl, Amarachi Iwunze, in the Umuduruewuewuru, Umuezeala Nsu in Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo state.

According to reports, the 22-year-old suspect, who is currently now on the run, allegedly raped the teenager to death in his own house.

According to neighborhood sources, the teenager’s lifeless body was stained with sperm when it was found in the suspect’s room on Sunday, June 12.

According to a statement given to PUNCH, The source said that the suspect escaped after his mother raised an alarm which attracted residents and indigenes to the scene.

ON Monday morning, June 13, Following the de@th of the teenager, enraged youths stormed the house of the suspect and burnt it down. Mr Okechukwu Oguowere, The Deputy PG of the community, claimed the teenager was murdered for ritual purposes.

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