Police Uncover Yahoo School in Lagos, 10 Fraudsters Arrested

Police have uncovered Yahoo school in Lagos.

Epe Insights reports that the Lagos State Police Command says it has uncovered a building in the Iju area of Lagos State used for internet fraud training, popularly known as “Yahoo school“.

The Lagos Police Command said four Yahoo experts, among them two siblings, who had been running the Yahoo school in Lagos, were arrested alongside six trainees undergoing training in cybercrime and fraud during the operation.

The suspected boys are Chibuike Ihejika, 23; Stanley Ihejika, 22; Obiora Oyediba, 26, and Emmanuel Oyedibe, 25, while the six trainees’ are Okorie Henry, Otoh Chisom, 20; Okeke Kwufrochikwu, 26; Uchenna Obeji, 26; Minachi Udochukwu, 12, and Chinedu Ukachukwu, 23.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hudenyin, said the underage trainee, Ugochukwu, had healing marks of injuries on his body allegedly inflicted on him by the main principal suspect, to compel him into the commission of the criminal acts.

According to him, preliminary investigations revealed that the principal suspects of the facility recruited their trainees from Anambra State and engaged them to commit internet fraud and other related crimes.

The Lagos Police spokesman said the proceeds from the fraudulent activities of the internet fraudsters were confiscated by the principal suspects.

Hudenyin said: “All suspects have been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Yaba for further discreet investigation and prosecution.

“Efforts are ongoing to apprehend the sponsors, who financed the trainees’ enrollment in the school as well as the owner of the facility where these criminal and illegal activities took place.

“The owner of the facility is hereby warned in his own interest to turn himself in immediately at the SCID Panti from wherever he is hiding. The Lagos State Police Command will ensure that all suspects are charged to court for prosecution upon the conclusion of the investigation into the case.”