A cyber fraudster, commonly known as a Yahoo boy, has reportedly used military officers to track down an Islamic cleric named Suleimon following an alleged swindle involving special prayers,.
The brother of the Alfa, known only as Hamzat, reportedly screamed in anguish as troops allegedly broke into his block factory and took his Toyota RAV 4.
According to Hamzat, who spoke to The Punch, the army personnel, numbering up to five, arrived at his factory in Bankole Estate, Magboro, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, and began searching for his younger brother.
He said that the incident started after he asked Sulaimon for special prayers on behalf of an unnamed suspected Yahoo boy who is the brother of his girlfriend.
He claimed that once the prayer was successful, his girlfriend’s brother requested further special prayers, so Sulaimon in Lagos’ Agege neighborhood referred him to another unnamed Islamic cleric.
Hamzat said;
“After my brother introduced him to another Alfa for special prayer, maybe he was duped (or he didn’t get the expected returns after payment), I don’t know. My brother also said he did not know what transpired between the boy and the other Alfa.
On Tuesday, I was called by someone that some people were at my block factory and they wanted to buy blocks. So I rushed down. I told the person the price of my blocks. In the course of that, I just saw some soldiers coming into the estate. They came to me and said they wanted to see me. I asked them what happened, but they started grabbing me.
When I looked into their car, I saw the guy I introduced to my brother and his sister, who is my girlfriend. Then the soldiers said I should follow them. They said they would drive my car with them, but I refused, I said I couldn’t give them my car key but I would drive along with them since I did not steal or commit any crime.”
He continued by saying that the military had taken him to their barracks in Ebute, where they reportedly demanded N10,000 from him and had impounded his car until he could show them his brother. Hamzat saw that one of the guards repeatedly demanded that her brother,
