{"id":148165,"date":"2019-08-31T07:15:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T06:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=148165"},"modified":"2019-08-31T07:16:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T06:16:54","slug":"efcc-apprehended-20-suspected-yahoo-boys-in-imo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=148165","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Apprehends 20 Suspected \u2018Yahoo Boys\u2019 In Imo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EFCC-Arrests-20-Suspected-\u2018Yahoo-Boys\u2019-In-Imo.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Enugu zonal office, have arrested 20 suspected Internet fraudsters popularly known as \u2018Yahoo Boys\u2019 in Imo State.<\/p>\n<p>Operatives of the commission pounced on the suspects in Owerri, the capital, on Friday morning and whisked them away. <\/p>\n<p>It should be recalled that some 30 suspected &#8216;Yahoo Boys&#8217; were arrested by the anti-grant agency six days ago at the Spibat area of Owerri, according to a report by PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p>An eyewitness disclosed that while some of the fraudsters were arrested, others escaped by jumping through the fence of the house they were discovered.<\/p>\n<p>He witness said, \u201cEFCC operatives on Friday morning stormed Aladinma extension area of Owerri and arrested \u2018Yahoo boys\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were more than 20 they picked up. They also recovered cars, phones, and laptops from their targets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOthers, who were smart, jumped out of the windows and fled. It was a funny scenario this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the second time these people are storming Owerri in less than one week to arrest \u2018Yahoo boys\u2019.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Enugu zonal office, have arrested 20 suspected Internet fraudsters popularly known as \u2018Yahoo Boys\u2019 in Imo State. Operatives of the commission pounced on the suspects in Owerri, the capital, on Friday morning and whisked them away. It should be recalled that some 30 suspected &#8216;Yahoo Boys&#8217; were arrested by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[866,12997,615,7851],"class_list":["post-148165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-efcc","tag-fbi","tag-icpc","tag-yahoo-boys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}