The Chairman, Council of Amotekun Commanders in South West, and Corps Commander Ondo State, Adetunji Adeleye has canvassed the arrest and prosecution of the parents and guardians of fraudsters as a way of curbing the social malaise in Nigeria.
The Amotekun chief called on the Federal government to put in place a legal framework to make this happen as soon as possible as yahoo boys’ activities are ruining many livs in the society.
Speaking in Akure on Monday, February 14, Adeleye accused parents of many fraudsters of complicity in the crimes.
“I want to say that the majority of the parents of these boys know what their children do: coming home with Lexus cars, a 200 level student buying houses and cars for their parents, and they know that they don’t have any legitimate job.
“They are accomplices as far as I am concerned. I am looking forward to a situation that the legal system will have a grip on such parents that encourage such. The decadence is a big failure from the family setting.
“There is no way your ward will be misbehaving to such extent that you will not know, otherwise you have failed as a parent” he said
Adeleye added that some of the internet fraudsters are involved in human rituals for money purposes, termed: “Yahoo plus.”
“A couple of weeks ago, I invited a prominent hotelier because our investigation reveals that we found students who take over rooms in these major hotels for a whole year. They don’t even allow the hotel staff to clean their rooms, so, they don’t know what is even happening in the rooms. A lot of those ladies are butchered and cleaned up inside these hotel rooms for ritual purposes,” he said.
Adeleye, said that hoteliers in the state have great roles to play in reducing the new trend among the youths.
“We told them the implications and made them know that they would be made to face the music if they notice any of these unwholesome attitudes of these youths and they don’t report.
“How do you explain a 21 years old boy paying N2m hotel bills that he has not used, taking five to 10 rooms in a hotel and nobody sleeps in the hotel rooms for most part of the week.
“We should know that they are up to something; this is the area that we feel that the hoteliers should assist to nip the crime in the bud. There are a lot of things coming up.” he said.
