100 youths arrested in Effurun Yahoo Training School
SOLDIERS from Battalion Nigerian Army
Barracks at the popular Army
Estate, Effurun in Uvwie, Delta
State have arrested no fewer
than 10o youths suspected to
be Internet fraudsters as the
operatives stormed one HK
"Hustle Kingdom" School, a
cybercriminal training network
school in the metropolis, where
intending Internet fraudsters
are reportedly trained.
The Army Estate is Post highbrow residential
Service Housing Estate for
retired military officers and
civilians in Uvwie, Delta State.
PUNCH Metro gathered that
the suspects were rounded up
following intelligence reports o
the discovery of an HK (Yahoo
training) School within the
premises of the Army Estate.
Sources who know about the
school told PUNCH Metro that
after months of intelligence
the
reports gathering on
activities of the suspects, the
military personnel stormed the
school and "arrested over one
hundred of them in the early
hours and late Saturday."
Also, the alleged owner of the
school and his accomplices wer
arrested by the soldiers during
the raid, it was further gathered.
"The soldiers acted
intelligence reports", one of the
sources affirmed.
Meanwhile, the military
authorities at the 3 Battalion
Barracks,
Nigerian Army
Effurun have reportedly handed
over the suspects to the police at
Ekpan in Uvwie for prosecution
after proper profiling.
Metro PUNCH When contacted the Police Public Relations Officer for the Delta
State Command, SP Bright
Edafe, over the incident, on
Monday, he confirmed the
arrest of the suspects, but could
not give details of how the
Suspects were apprehended.