Breaking: Rent your house to Yahoo boys, spend 15 years in jail-EFCC Tells Landlords.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) plans to pursue landlords who lease their properties to Yahoo guys, or internet scammers.

The anti-corruption organisation will educate the public by hosting a discussion on Twitter Spaces on Wednesday.

The forum, the tenth iteration of EFCC Connect, will feature remarks from the commission's legal and prosecution officers.

Social media users have reacted to the chat's topic, "Give your house to Yahoo boys, spend 15 years in jail."

Owners of commercial premises had received repeated warnings from the EFCC not to make them accessible to scammers.


The Abdulrasheed Bawa-led organisation met with hotel owners in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara, earlier in the month.

Michael Nzekwe, the zonal commander, expressed alarm about the "cold complicity by hospitality owners".

Nzekwe accused some of them of collaborating with alleged fraudsters by providing them with long-term housing and internet access.

According to the official, the act in question renders Section 3 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006, invalid.


Anyone who authorises the use of their property for any Act-related offence is subject to a prison sentence of five to fifteen years without the option of a fine, according to the clause, he added.

Nzekwe clarified that the law does not recognise the position of the claim that hoteliers are business people and cannot identify a fraudster.

The EFCC instructed them to request proof of identification from every customer and to ask about their occupation throughout the check-in process.

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