My mother sold family land to enrol him in Yahoo centre Boy of 12
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Munachi Udochukwu, 12, has narrated the event of his arrest, treatment, and eventual conveyance to a Yahoo training centre in Lagos.
Before he came to Lagos, he stayed with his parents in Anambra State. Following his father’s death, being the sole breadwinner, he was brought to the gang that runs the outfit.
“I was woken up one early morning by the news of the sudden de@th of my father who left home for his business place the previous day.
His de@th shattered my dreams of a promising carrrier in the future, as I was made to drop out of school since the proceeds from my mother’s petty trading business was not enough to sustain the family.”
“Then, not knowing what to do, my mother approached a friend of hers, for financial support, but rather she introduced my mother to a gang that was recruiting young boys in the East into internet fraud.
“To her, the prospects were good as she believed that in less than one year, her young son would be rich enough to shoulder the burden and that her worries will be over.
“The only thing that stood against the thought of a lavish lifestyle is the money to buy me a laptop, data and some few other items.”
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“Not wanting to fail again, she quickly, without thinking of the possible dangers ahead, sold the only land that was given to my father by his family to raise the fund,” he confessed to a team of detectives from the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti where he was being detained.
Munachi explained that a few weeks later they came into Lagos with three others and got themselves enrolled into this Internet Training Centre where they were supposed to get trained on how to cheat unsuspecting foreign and local businessmen.
He further said: “At the first stage they introduced us to various online romance sites, showing us how to bait people who look for sexual pleasure for some money in dollars.
“We all had different roles in the act of defrauding a would-be client, and those roles must be carried out well, otherwise there will be punishments by beating. You can be made to go without food if the stake was high.
“I barely spent some months there before we were arrested by the police. Most of the money we make goes to our instructors. We are only given food. Those already graduated get a fraction of the proceeds from a successful deal.”
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Moshood Jimoh, while announcing the arrest of the suspects at a press briefing held at the command headquarters on Thursday, named the operators of the illegal Internet:
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Chibike Iheijika (23), Stanley Iheijika (22), Obiora Oyedibe (26), and Emmanuel Onedibe (25).Giving the names of the trainees, CP Jimoh through the spokesman of the command, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, said: “The names of the trainees are Okorie Henry, Otoh Chisom (20), Okeke Kwufrochukwu (26), Uchenna Obeji (26), Munachi Udochukwu (12), and Chinedu Ukachukwu (23).”At the conference, Hundeyin further stated that the command’s operatives successfully discovered and dismantled an illegal Internet fraud training…
He said that while the operation was ongoing, the detectives arrested 10 suspects from the command, four of whom were the yahoo experts that ran the infamous school.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that the principal suspects of the facility recruited the trainees from Anambra State, engaged them to commit internet fraud and other related crimes.
“They were collecting the share of the fraud proceeds that the trainees managed to steal, pursuant to an illegal agreement entered into by the principal suspects in their criminal activities. All suspects have been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Yaba, for further discreet investigation and prosecution.
“The search is now on to apprehend the sponsors who financed the enrolment of the trainees in the school and the owner of the facility where the criminal and illegal activities took place.”
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