Opinion

The Scourge Of Yahoo Boys, Wole Ajewole

The scourge is now afflicting all of us. Many hard working and genuine business men are now suffering from the vicarious liability from the activities of the SCAMMERS globally. We have been labelled and branded as people not to be trusted. Imagine, eighty something of them arrested. This has given us bad image which will take years to change. There are honest, patriotic men and women in Nigeria but we are all paying for the negative acts of some leeches.

There is a catastrophe… We breed and nurture them at home here. We export them abroad to deploy heir expertise. Can we retool or rework our society? In many areas, towns, communities, you see young and energetic group drinking ogogoro in the morning. What do you expect from that generation? To the knowledge of everybody, police, SSS, IMMIGRATION, DMI, We know those guys in our hoods engaging in these terrible acts. We never took action against them. They are recruiting our children and training them, giving them these incredible skills in manipulation, defrauding, cyber criming, and internet frauding. Many parents never saw anything wrong in it any longer. So almost becoming a way of life. O ti su mi fa!

Some bad ones in the Police and even the court are in cahoots with these guys. Mind you, these guys are also occultic, and dominate the mental domain of the prey. Moreover, some took advantage of access to information. Some bank officials give out info about the account details of people. We have to be cautious and circumspect in our various dealings. Your driver, security, cook, even kids may be one of them. It’s like everyone is involved. Most parents don’t see it as crime any longer. It is seen as acts of bravery, exceptional brilliance and high intelligence. Your lawyer, watch out, could sell you out as he may be in possession of some valid documents from your transaction. Most of us tell our clergies our busines performance and ask them to support us with prayers to hit one contract or the other, or to get paid for a contract we have executed. Many Pastors and Imams are involved nowadays. It’s like good, honest and hard working people are no more in existence. But they are and we are.

We have gone international and made indelible imprints. My mother would say that we are smart in negativities. This is alarming, it calls for concern. We need a new altitude and new orientation. We need positive attributes, these we must put up in our actions and deeds. Let us say no to cyber fraud, let us expose them.Let us educate our wards that fruad is not sustainable. It will not last. It will lead to a perilous end. Greed, avariceousness, indolence will not lead them anywhere. Let us teach them contentment. Let us show them that a man with contented life will always be at peace with himself, the society and God. The society must fight them to a stand still. Enough of this bad imaging. It is stunting to us as individual, to our economy as a nation and to our socio-stimulation as a race. It is worrisome.

Wole Ajewole, community leader wrote from Osogbo.

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