The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, says plans are underway to rehabilitate convicted internet fraudsters aka yahoo boys.
The Chairman of the anti-graft agency, Ola Olukoyede, stated this on Thursday, March 21, in Abuja.
Olukoyede said that the rehabilitation would be useful in reorienting the minds of the convicts and redirecting their productive energies to positive endeavours.
According to a statement by the commission on Friday, Olukoyede said: “We have a plan to rehabilitate convicted internet fraudsters with lesser sentences. The plan is to work with the correctional centre to make them useful and more productive in society.
When you think deeply, that tag ‘ex-convict’ is not a good thing. You can never tell where you will find yourself tomorrow, and they will want to profile you and discover that you are an ex-convict.
So, it is even in the interest of the youth that the EFCC is doing what it is doing to prevent them from indulging in the heinous act of cybercrime.”