A suspected yahoo boy identified as Tope has been mobbed on Monday, April 10 in the ljoka area of Akure, the Ondo state capital after crushing four persons to death in an accident.
An eyewitness said that the victims were crushed to death by a ‘yahoo boy’ (internet scammer). According to him, the Yahoo boy was driving a Toyota car along the road and suddenly skidded off its lane to crush the victims who were on commercial motorcycles also known as Okada.
Immediately the accident happened some sympathizers who rushed to rescue the victims and the driver, reportedly found some fetish items like calabash, snails, tortoise, ladies underpants, amongst other things, inside the driver’s vehicle, raising suspicion that he is a ‘yahoo boy’.
Angered by their discovery in the car, the sympathizers descended on the driver and beat him to a point of comatose. His car was however set ablaze.
For the timely intervention of the men of the state police command, who arrived at the scene, the driver would have been set ablaze by the mob following what they discovered in his vehicle.
The Police officer, who rescued the driver from the mob, declined comment.
The deceased was later taken to the state hospital mortuary while those injured were treated at the same hospitals.
But one of the policemen later informed The Vanguard that the driver was taken to the state police command headquarters for questioning. He said:
”We had to rescue the suspect from the mob, thank God we arrived at the scene on time, they would’ve killed the boy.
”He has been detained at the state police headquarters in Akure. Our detectives would be questioning him.”
The state police spokesperson, Funmi Odunlami, could not be reached for further comment.
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