Despite Delta Protest, EFCC Vows to Continue Hunting ‘Yahoo Boys’

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it will continue to “locate, investigate and arrest” ‘Yahoo Boys’ who come out to protest.

The agency said this in response to Tuesday’s protest in Warri, during which youths took to the major roads of Delta State to register their grievances against the agency.

“The EFCC’s mandate is to rid Nigeria of all forms of economic and financial crimes and will not be deterred by mere campaign of calumny,” the anti-graft agency said on Twitter.

“Yahoo Boys came out to protest because the Eagle strongly detests their fraudulent interest, but the EFCC will continue to do her best to locate, investigate, and arrest anyone caught in causing economic unrest.”

While some protesters sustained injuries, three people were shot dead, with no less than 20 petroleum trucks set ablaze by aggrieved youths in Otovwodo, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State.

Among the accusations of the #EndEFCC protesters was that the EFCC was raiding them and “demanding as much as N2million each from any of the youth captured”.

Some of the protesters also said the agency was indiscriminately intruding into their homes and arresting them without any proper investigation to know their sources of living.

FIJ