Knocks As EFCC Hires Influencer Arrested For Fraud To Sensitize NYSC Members

• Kazeem Badmus

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC) decision to engage the services of popular social media influencer, Adedamola Adewale, a.k.a. Adeherself, to sensitize serving corps members on the dangers of cybercrime has sparked reaction from the public.

OSUN DEFENDER recalls that the EFCC had in June 2020 arrested Adeherself for cyber fraud and was granted N500,000 bail by an Ikeja Special Offences Court in July.

The Commission also rearraigned the social media influence in February 2023, befre-arraigneda High Court over an alleged N7.9 million internet fraud. On a three-count charge of conspiracy to obtain money by false pretences, attempt to obtain money by false pretences and retention of proceeds of criminal conduct.

However, the EFCC unveiled the defendant as a stakeholder in its anti-graft war and further engaged her to admonish corps members to shun cybercrime.

In a post on its official X, the anti-graft agency said Adeherself was a speaker during a sensitization programme organized by the commission at the NYSC orientation camp in Iyana Ipaja, Lagos.

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Human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, while reacting to the development on her official X, stated “In Nigeria, crime is not the issue as long as it is done big time. Petty crime is what is criminalized.”