The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is threatening a jail term of 15 years for landlords that give their properties in rent to yahoo boys. In a message from their official twitter handle, inviting the public to their next EFCC Connect, an open forum where they discuss with the members of the public, the message reads;

Okay now! What a juicy topic! E go sweet wella! Landlord way yahoo-boy dey stay for him house, my people, na 15 years imprisonment for the landlord o! E don set!
See the details of the public forum below, for landlords that will want to attend. Let's see how they intend to prosecute this and send landlords to jail for 15 years.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0seWDmmErKXYGqZYJxNtuC69ybeUHu2rwAdhKXn68ysgFmDonBz2jXXx8pYotsvGTl&id=100064596373289

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Wahala

Nonsense!

How can a landlord know a prospective tenant does yahoo?

Will EFCC provide devices or voodoo that landlords will use to screen prospective tenants?

When they fail, they push the blame and the responsibility to the defenseless.

The same EFCC that, despite its funding and sophisticated equipment, cannot detect fraud is tasking landlords to become special detectives. Welcome to the zoo.

Fighting crime is a collective effort but this EFCC is mad.

Specify what landlords should do when giving an apartment to prospective tenants. Do not just say the landlord will be jailed once a tenant is confirmed to be a fraudster. If you specify things, landlords will play their parts. But considering how fraudsters innovate methods, landlords cannot catch them, and you know it. Should the landlords collect a specific document from the tenant? Should the landlord go to the person's workplace? If yes, make it a law and also make a provision to protect the landlords because some tenants may attack some landlords on the ground that the landlords are encroaching on tenants' privacy. Some wicked landlords may even leverage on it to invade the privacy of innocent tenants. Landlords that are fraudsters can even use the policy to gather information to harm unsuspecting innocent tenants.

P1PrinceKT:
How can you not know this boy is a Yahoo boy while he stays at home always and do extravaganz life.

You do not know there are legitimate and well-paid online jobs.

For those claiming it is easy to identify a yahoo boy, and also for those talking about KYC:
Some business owners and employees are into Yahoo. They use their offices and businesses to cover up. Even some bankers are suspects. Abba is enough "Kyari" evidence. So, how reliable is KYC? When landlords begin ask sensitive questions, na una go still say why ladlords dey put eye for your personal life.

SIM registration, NIN linkage and BVN have not stopped fraudulent calls and fraudulent transfer of money by fraudsters and kidnappers. Yet some of you are hoping on KYC. Shmm! Una no wan borrow sense. Fraudsters can even set up a physical office and gather colleagues as customers and employees. They will vacate the office after a few months of fraudulent operations. Fraud detection is not as easy as you think. If na KYC, everybody go carry KYC list dey waka. If na KYC, police no need further investigation when person show KYC. Make una borrow sense.

Utter nonsense!!

And what about those yahoo boys that build their own houses?
Would the EFCC jail the seller of the land for not asking where the boys got money to buy the land, how many years would they jail the architect that draw the building plan? Cos he should have asked where the young boy got millions to employ his service. For how long would the contractor building the house be sentenced since they didn't source for where the boys money came from?
And the last question is, if the house has flats for rent would the tenants also be jailed for renting a house from a landlord whose source of income isn't known?

These are critical questions EFCC should ask themselves

Good, u don't just rent ur house to every Tom and dick, ask for do documents, their occupation etc

tamdun:
Good, u don't just rent ur house to every Tom and dick, ask for do documents, their occupation etc

Which occupation? So if they tell you they are car dealers you won't give them the house ?

Will EFCC also arrest landlord for giving their property to corrupt civil servants and politicians?

The real Yahoo boys no dey rent house, na Dem be landlord now. .. check well

Na hungry geeboy dey rent aos. Guys wey don bizza dey live 4 their own houses

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The brainlessness of this direction is making my head hurt.

First it empowers landlords to pry into the private lives of their tenants,

secondly it is going to be a very hard to enforce.

I doubt it.

What if the LandLord is not living in the building and has no idea whom the Agent gave his house to, biko just arrest the criminals , don't come and complicate people's life. Anyway may be we would start incorporating building now, so that they have their identity away from the owner ....

EFCC does not make laws, they are not the courts. They don't even have the power to jail anyone except the courts. They only have prosecutorial powers, they can usurp the powers of the court.


Civil right societies should challenge this statement in court and bring the idiot in EFCC who made the statement to book. EFCC must know it limits cannot cross prosecutorial boundaries.

EFCC una be MUMU

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Yahoo is a menace

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Perfectbeing:
Utter nonsense!!

And what about those yahoo boys that build their own houses?
Would the EFCC jail the seller of the land for not asking where the boys got money to buy the land, how many years would they jail the architect that draw the building plan? Cos he should have asked where the young boy got millions to employ his service. For how long would the contractor building the house be sentenced since they didn't source for where the boys money came from?
And the last question is, if the house has flats for rent would the tenants also be jailed for renting a house from a landlord whose source of income isn't known?

These are critical questions EFCC should ask themselves

Why are you wailing? Seems you're a yahoo boy.

What about landlords housing politicians? The likes of buhari?



Check my signature for a free code.

And the Yahoo boys are getting two years?

Infact, they're even bribing their way outta jail.

Funny.

What a stvpid directive!

What about a yahoo government housing the EFCC?

The EFCC should liaise with sister agencies in information sharing in other to curb internet crimes AKA Yahoo Yahoo, not this cheap propaganda!

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SarkinYarki:


Which occupation? So if they tell you they are car dealers you won't give them the house ?

And their car dealing business has no location?

Dbull on this one!!!



That means it will be hard for my landlord to find a new tenant after chasing me out, how go come cheap

Worosiworo

Analogue backward govt

This Buhari will be on record as the most dumb govt in the history of Nigeria. He failed in all indices of human endeavour. Who will arrest politicians looting us dry .

There are thousands of them across Nigeria

After Buhari, they are the reason for the increase in rent