Mr Chidiebere Ihediwa, a cyber-security specialist, on Wednesday, advised the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to devise methods of re-orientating arrested educated online fraudsters (aka Yahoo Boys) to become information technology specialists, saying the strategy is better than allowing them to languish in detention or undergo destructive dissolution.
Ihediwa, a renowned software developer, made this call during an award ceremony in his honour at the Police Officers Mess, GRA Ikeja, Lagos, saying, “Knowledge can be categorised into two – positive and negative.”
He also explained that “even if there were many educated young men among the cyber fraudsters, their inherent knowledge was at variance with the ideal positive knowledge needed for societal development.”
The cybersecurity specialist pointed out that “re-directing the knowledge of the Yahoo boys to meaningful ventures will be of great advantage to the nation.”
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