By Ovie Okpare
No fewer than one hundred youths suspected to be internet fraudsters have been arrested by military personnel from 3 Battalion Nigerian Army Barracks at the popular Army Estate, Effurun in Uvwie, Delta State.
The suspects were said to have been arrested following intelligence reports after the discovery of an HK (Yahoo training) School within the estate premises.
HK “Hustle Kingdom” school is a cybercriminal training network school where intending internet fraudsters are trained.
It was gathered that after months of gathering intelligence reports on the activities of the suspected, armed military operatives stormed the school and arrested over one hundred of them in the early hours and late Saturday.
NIGER DELTA TODAY Online further learned that the alleged owner of the HK school and his accomplices were also arrested by the soldiers.
Sources aware of the development told our correspondent that about 90 suspects were arrested in the early hours of Saturday while another set of about 50 were arrested late Saturday following the raid of the estate.
“About 150 of them were arrested. The HK School was raided by soldiers in the early hours of Saturday. The second set was apprehended late Saturday night. The soldiers acted on intelligence reports”, one of the sources told our correspondent on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the military authorities at the 3 Battalion Nigerian Army Barracks Effurun have handed the suspects to the police at Ekpan in Uvwie for prosecution after proper profiling.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, confirmed the arrest of the suspects, but could not give details of how the suspects were apprehended.
Army Estate is highbrow residential Post Service Housing Estate for retired military officers and civilians in Uvwie, Delta State.
