Operatives of Ogun State Police command have arrested four suspected internet fraudsters (Yahoo boys).
According to the command’s spokesman, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, they were arrested on Monday for abducting their colleague over sharing of proceeds of their fraud business.
The suspects – Agbe Simeon ‘m’; Messiah Nicky ‘f’; Oladapo Dolapo ‘m’ and Yetunde Shonola ‘f’ – were arrested at Orile Imo Village in Obafemi Owode local government area of Ogun state, following an information received by the Police at Owode Egba divisional headquarters, that one Haruna Usman, who had been abducted since Thursday, December 22, 2022, was being held hostage somewhere in Orile Imo.
Upon the information, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Owode Egba division, CSP Popoola Olasunkanmi, quickly mobilized his men and stormed the area, where four amongst the abductors were apprehended while two others escaped.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the victim and the suspects belong to an internet fraudster syndicate, and that they recently swindled somebody whose identity is not yet known of the sum of N26,437,950.
It was gathered that the victim only gave the sum of N2,200 to his other colleagues, claiming that the money has not been paid completely by their “client”.
That infuriated his colleagues who then lured him to an herbalist home at Orile Imo and held him hostage there since Thursday, December 22, 2022, with threat to kill him there if he refused to give them their complete share.
But while they were there, information got to the police who moved in, rescued the victim and apprehended four amongst the abductors, while others escaped.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has directed that the suspects be transferred to anti-kidnapping unit of the State Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation and possible prosecution.
