Police Uncover, Destroy ‘Yahoo School’ in Lagos 

The Lagos State Police Command has discovered and shut down an internet fraud training center, popularly known as a “Yahoo School,” in the Iju area of the state.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Command’s spokesperson, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the operation.

According to Hundeyin, officers arrested four suspected fraud mentors along with six trainees. 

“During the successful operations, the police detectives apprehended four yahoo experts, of ages 22, 23, 25, and 26, who were running the notorious school. 

“The other six suspects, who are between the ages of 12 and 26, are their criminal trainees, all of whom were undergoing training in cybercrime and fraud.

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

“The proceeds from their fraudulent activities were being confiscated by the principal suspects,” he said.

According to him, all suspects have been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Yaba, for further discreet investigation and prosecution.

The image maker said that efforts were on to apprehend other accomplices.

“Efforts are ongoing to apprehend the sponsors who financed the trainees’ enrolment 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 State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Yaba, from wherever he is hiding,” he said.

Hundeyin said that the command would ensure that all suspects were charged to court for prosecution, upon the conclusion of the investigation in the case.

He said that the 12-year-old suspect among them, with healing marks of injuries on his body, was receiving medical care.

“In line with due process of the law, the underage suspect with injuries allegedly inflicted on him by the main principal suspect to compel him into the commission of the criminal acts, is being given medical attention. 

“He is kept in protective custody till his relatives are identified and reunited with him,” the spokesperson said.