The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, says he will utilise the potential of internet fraudsters, otherwise known as Yahoo Boys.
The Deputy President of the Senate made the promise on Wednesday during the party’s ward-to-ward governorship campaign in the Aniocha North Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta State’s Onicha-Ugbo, Issele-Uku, and Onicha-Olona communities.
“Yahoo Boys’ are young Nigerian men who specialise in various types of cybercrime, especially posing as women online to defraud unsuspecting foreigners. Some of them are hackers.
“We will harness the potential and ingenuity of the Yahoo Boys by engaging them in their best positive ways by asking them to develop apps, and the state government will be a shareholder.
“By so doing, we are creating employment for our children,” Omo-Agege said.
Cybercrime is punishable by up to five years imprisonment.
