Human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has reacted to 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.
Recall 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.
In February 2023, the Commission rearraigned the social
media influencer before an Ikeja 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.
Aisha Yesufu, reacting to the development on her official X,
stated that “In Nigeria, crime is not the issue as long as it is done big time.
Petty crime is what is criminalized.”
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