- Suspects were under surveillance for weeks before EFCC carried out the operation near BUK new site.
- All 25 individuals arrested are confirmed to be BUK undergraduate students, EFCC spokesperson discloses.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested 25 undergraduate students of Bayero University, Kano, over alleged involvement in internet fraud.
The anti-graft agency said the suspects were apprehended on Monday opposite the new site of the institution.
The Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.
He said the arrest followed actionable intelligence that linked the students to various forms of cybercrime.
“All suspects apprehended are confirmed to be undergraduate students of BUK,” he said.
Oyewale listed the names of the suspects as Ismaíl Nura, Suuleyman Ayeh, Usman Abdulrazaq, Emmanuel Chigozie, Akabe Seth, Daniel Imoter, Abdulganiyu Jimoh and Jafar Abubakar.
Others include Usman Nuraddeen, Mohammad Adnan, Abubakar Abusufyan, Abdulmalik Ibrahim, Abubakar Sadiq, Daniel Masamu, Abdulrasheed Abdulsamad and Issac Dosunu.
Also arrested were Nuraddeen Ogunbiyi, Onyeyemi Kaleem, Miracle Joseph, Danjuma Musa, Ibrahim Mubaraq, Yusuf Salihu, Lawal Ibrahim Edebo, Abdulmajeed Suleiman and Dauda Abdulhamid.
The commission said items recovered during the raid included mobile phones, laptops, internet routers and a Honda Accord.
Oyewale said the arrests followed weeks of surveillance on the suspects’ alleged roles in identity theft, financial scams and other forms of internet fraud.
He added that the suspects would be charged to court upon conclusion of investigations.