EFCC Designates Lekki As Nigeria’s Cybercrime Capital

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says Lekki area of Lagos State is now the epicenter of cybercrime in Nigeria.

The area on Lagos Island is a choice place for the high and mighty in the country. These include top politicians, business leaders and creme of the entertainment sector who have turned the place to their abodes.

The mass relocation by Nigerian first class citizens have pushed the cost of property to an all time high in the last few years.

Regardless of the cost, Nigerians who want to have a piece of the area have continued to troop in, the very latest being cybercrime criminals also known as Yahoo Yahoo boys, who the EFCC said have turned the area into their headquarters.

The anti graft agency disclosed this in one of its social media pages, adding that it has made more arrest of internet fraudsters in Lekki than any other part of the country in recent months.

According to the Abdulrasheed Bawa-led agency “Lekki, the fast-developing upper middle-class area of Lagos Metropolis, is emerging as the new hub of internet-related fraud.

“Data from the investigation activities of the Lagos Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for the second quarter of 2021, indicates that Lekki District is the preferred location for all manner of cyber fraud syndicates.

“Between April and June, 2021, the Advance Fee Fraud and Cyber Crime Sections of the Command recorded a total of 402 internet-related fraud arrests. While the Advance Fee Fraud Section was responsible for 243 arrests, the Cyber Crime Section executed 18 sting operations which resulted in 159 arrests, from which 13 convictions have so far been recorded,” the agency said.