*As phone theft crimes heightens
By Achadu Gabriel, kaduna
As the economy bite harder, individuals and families have begins to adapt and device ways and means of survival, wrongly or rightly.
While some have taken into an odd jobs, evacuating rubbish to feed their families, many have resorted to buying Android phones and given their underaged Sons to join yahoo boy business with the sole aim to make fast one.
Findings have uncovered that the later, the yahoo stuff is gaining speedy momentum among male childs mostly of those aged below 18 years. Some celebrate fallout of the proceed of their yahoo boy child.
Our Correspondent gathered that the lucrative but odditiius and crimes induced business was triggered by sudden growth of Mansion buildings planted in some low profile communities that were traced to yahoo boys parents.
Aside triggering other poor parents, some boys are been offered android phones by their parents technically to join the yahoo boys to raked in monies to support their family up keep.
Many have attributed the development to the apparent reality in the country’s current hardship occasioned by what some described as subsidy removal, floating of naira, decades of insecurity, terrorism and kidnapping for ransom amongst others.
In some cases, school certificate holders awaiting higher education admission are given the phones and shown a group of yahoo boys nearer to even join to help themselves in making quick one ahead of their anticipated schools they ended up not going for obvious reasons.
It has become obvious, that recently, many neighborhood families in communities gathered together for celebration and jubilation with parents for their sons cashed-out from same cyber fraud and built big flats for them.
Investigation uncovered that the menace cut across virtually all tribes, religion and states of the Federation and not restricted to one state or zones alone.
In kaduna, most yahoo boys have relocated from their family house or circle for luxury hotels where they operates and network and trained themselves, colleagues and other new entrants.
Feasibilitly, majority of the underaged yahoo boys venturing into cybercrimes are being encouraged by maternal parents with little resistance from their paternal parents, according to expert who want his name to remain out print.
Most extremely poor who could not afford to buy android phones themselves or through their parents have to take to crimes to get it by stealing, attacking and collect from owners, heightening the cases of arrest of phone theft crimes suspected by police across board, a case that have also become so rampant in kaduna state in recent times.
