Tears As Yahoo Son Buries Mother Alive For Money Ritual
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has expressed outrage over the attitude of a boy who buried his mother alive to get rich.
The Acting Zonal Director of the Commission for Makurdi Zonal Directorate, ACE 1, Effa Imo Okim, made this known during a visit to the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Benue State Council.
The NUJ Chairman, Bemdoo Ugber, expressed concern that the Commission appears to be turning away from prosecuting public corrupt officials but has shifted attention to the war against Yahoo, Yahoo boys.
The Zonal Director disagreed that the Commission turned focus away from the corrupt public officials and faced the criminals called Yahoo boys.
According to the Director, since the boys have become ritualists, making life difficult for peace-loving people, the resolve for sanity has made the anti-graft agency to face the syndicate to end the threat.
Cautioning that Yahoo boys patronise ritualists for the powers to make money, the EFCC boss said in the process, they target their parents and kill for acquisition of wealth.
Wondering what future holds for the generation, Okim lamented what he explained, had been the trending video in which one of the Yahoo boys killed his mother to make money.
Advising the public, especially parents to observe cautiously the behaviour and activities of their children, the Zonal Director shared with the media family what he said, was seen in the video.
According to him, when the boy got admission to the higher institution, he joined a group of bad boys who took him to ritualists for magical powers of wealth acquisition.
The EFCC official said one of the conditions the ritualists gave to him was to bury his mother alive.
In fulfilment of the condition, the EFCC boss stated that the boy came on holiday and took time to dig the grave and that after completion, his mother not suspecting anything wrong but feeling safe in the hands of her son, relaxed.
The EFCC boss lamented that the boy hit his mother’s mouth with a heavy object. “Not only that, he tied her, dragged her into the grave and covered up with soil in compliance with demands of the ritualists.
The EFCC insisted that activities of the Yahoo boys were getting out of hand, adding that efforts were being made to reverse the trend.
