EFCC sets to rehabilitate ‘Yahoo boys’ convicted in Nigeria

• EFCC Chairman Abdulrasheed Bawa gave the hint during a meeting with Citizenship and Leadership Training Centre officials on Thursday

• Bawa also disclosed that the anti-graft agency has secured 3328 convictions so far in the course of the year

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to rehabilitate Nigerians prosecuted for internet fraud.

EFCC Chairman Abdulrasheed Bawa gave the hint during a meeting with Citizenship and Leadership Training Centre officials on Thursday, 24th November 2022.

CLTC Director-General Soji Eniade led the delegation to the EFCC headquarters in Abuja.

The anti-graft chief disclosed he was concerned about the future of young Nigerians.

According to Bawa, The desire to partner with the relevant organizations to rehabilitate ex-convicts is to allow them to separate themselves from the psychological and environmental factors that made them commit crime in the first place.

“I do not derive joy in the arrest, investigation, and prosecution of thousands of youths in productive ages, but the job must be done.”

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Bawa stated that the system must be concertedly cleansed of all forms of economic and financial crimes.

The goal, the EFCC chairman added, is to reintegrate offenders back into society after their jail term.

Meanwhile, Bawa also disclosed that The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured 3328 convictions so far in the course of the year.

He made this disclosure in Port Harcourt, Rivers State while declaring open a one-day Training Workshop on Financial Crimes Reporting for Journalists, in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria

According to him, the EFCC has secured 3328 convictions as at November 18, 2022, and got the court to forfeit the sum of N755million recovered from a former Accountant- General of the Federation, three luxury properties from Colonel Bello Fadile( retd), a former aide to former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.

“We also secured interim forfeiture of 40 assets in Nigeria, the United States of America, London, and Dubai belonging to former deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. Two weeks earlier, another court issued a final forfeiture order of two properties within Abuja belonging to Diezani Alison- Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources.