the students in the zone if invited. “We will be there for you in all the programmes that you outlined. Please give us an invitation. We will be there. We will be there to be part of you.”

Hammajoda encouraged the students’ leaders on their crusade against students’ involvement in internet crime. “We are sinking day by day with corruption. So let’s educate ourselves that this cyber crime will not take you anywhere. All of us are victims. Nobody has protection against it. Anyone can be attacked. We have a very sound youth population with a very high IQ (intelligence quotient) and ingenuity to do many things,” he said.

While lending his voice against youths’ involvement in internet crime, Chief of Staff to the Executive Chairman, Commander of the EFCC, CE Michael Nzekwe noted that “cybercrime has done too much damage to us as a country. If you check and find out how much it affected us, you’ll be shocked. Internationally, the image of the country has been battered. When you travel outside the country they look at you in a certain way with your green passport. So, cybercrime is just one thing that all of us have to put our hands together and be deliberate and intentional to see that we eliminate. EFCC has done so much in ensuring that.”

Besides leveraging on NELFUND, Nzekwe reminded the students of the Credit Scheme of the federal government as a handy window of opportunity for meeting their needs. “There’s also the credit scheme that is available for students that this government has put in place. So take that as a message to your students that they can assess this fund and the issue of poverty will not even arise.”

Rather than diminish, he noted that the trend of internet crime is rather skyrocketing in the Southeast. “You said that in the Southeast that you are hard working people and traders, but can I be honest with you? the level of yahoo yahoo in the Southeast and other cybercrimes has skyrocketed, and it has not just skyrocketed, it has gotten to the level which they call yahoo plus. They have become ritualists and kidnappers. Why would you have a gun in the house and open fire on someone on a legitimate duty? We are glad that you realized that this is wrong. You have also seen our own Press Release. We have said it very clearly and with a strong voice, that EFCC will not condone that or tolerate that from anybody, whoever the person is, never again.”


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