A Yahoo-Yahoo boy has been sentenced to one year in prison for possession of fraudulent documents in Lagos, the Nigeria anti-graft agency said in a statement.
According to the statement, the said yahoo-yahoo boy identified as Destiny Enofe, was sentenced before Justice R.A. Oshodi of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 to one-year imprisonment for possession of fraudulent documents.
Destiny was arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on an amended one-count charge bordering on possession of documents containing false pretence, contrary to Section 318 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011.
The count reads: “ENOFE DESTINY, sometime on the 21st of September, 2022 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, had in your possession a Facebook profile of a Chinese celebrity Allen Ren, which you created for the purpose of false representation of yourself as Allen Ren, a representation of which from the circumstance of this case you knew or reasonably ought to know to be false pretence.”
He pleaded “guilty” to the charge.