EFCC Goes Tough On Cyber-Criminals, To Strip Them Of Illegally Acquired Properties

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, has called on the youth to eschew cyber crimes and other forms of criminality noting that the commission would deploy all apparatus to strip cybercriminals of illegal proceeds.

Olukayode, in a post on the EFCC’s official page, made this call in Benin City, Edo State, while speaking on a programme ‘Youth Empowerment Against Cybercrime,” organised by Cybersecurity Education Initiatives, CYSED.

l Represented by Williams Oseghale, Head of the Public Affairs Department, Benin Zonal Command, the EFCC boss warned the youths to stay away from cybercrime as the consequences were dreadful.

He said, “Don’t be tempted or lured by the ostentatious lifestyle of other youths because the Commission will continue to arrest and prosecute anyone that is involved.

“In the last few years, the Commission has secured thousands of convictions of persons involved in cybercrime, many have been stripped of their illegally acquired properties. So they have ended in shame. There is no escape route for those involved in cybercrime.”

He stated that there was no shortcut to wealth and urged the youth to use the internet to innovate and create positive economic growth.

“The internet does not necessarily have to be an avenue to impersonate, manipulate, and fabricate lies to defraud others. Let the youths begin to use the internet for socially desirable things like offering digital solutions to the needs of industries, homes, governments, and other engagement of life.”