Different Reactions Trail Arrest Of Yahoo Boys Impersonating Peter Okoye

Different reactions have been trailing the disclosure by popular Nigerian singer, Peter Okoye better known as Mr P of the arrest of suspected internet fraudsters (Yahoo Boys) who impersonated him to scam Nigerians.

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Peter who had been wrongly accused severally of scamming people with his online giveaway platform, ‘Zoom’ revealed that the 17 suspects were arrested, interrogated and charged to court with full evidence.

The singer who disclosed these on his Twitter handle said that the Yahoo boys created  bank accounts bearing his name which they use to dupe people of their hard earned money.

Making the announcement, Mr P wrote: “ Take a good look at some of the fraudsters you are indirectly paying your hard earned money into the bank account they created as PETER OKOYE all in the name of “ZOOM GIVEAWAY”!

Over 17 of them have been arrested and interrogated and charged to court with full evidence! ??”

Over 17 of them have been arrested and interrogated. And they since confessed in court dat there are still over 100s of them out there! @zoomupyourlife is not on Watsap, all tickets are purchased directly from our website at https://t.co/fFjS7gybuI not by paying money into an acc pic.twitter.com/zPVIb1yPQk

— Peter Okoye MrP (@PeterPsquare) July 20, 2022

Reacting to his post, social media users via the comment section gave their verdict on the issue. While many pleaded with the singer to pity the young men noting that they were just looking for a means of survival, others out rightly condemned the act.

See reactions:

@donnwokedi: All young men in their productive age, sad! While their actions are condemnable, the leaders of this nation have a lot of blames in there hands for not creating an enabling environment for this young lads to find productive engagement. I believe, this is what @PeterObi will fix.

@mattonah: Hope bank officials were arrested too cos they couldn’t hv been able to do this without them. What happened to BVN & NIN?

@joshuaukachukw: release them pls the are just hustling to survive, all u hv to do is to support their hustle instead of arresting them ???

@mistervicko: My lil cousin almost fell victim on Facebook. They even called him on whatsapp video call and your face showed for like some seconds. I really dunno how they did that, well Thank God he told me before paying and i stopped him….

@momohbuhari3: You don’t blame government for everything

There’s what w3 called self integrity!

Country hard but no be only them dey face nau

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