Nigerian chess master, Tunde Onakoya, on Tuesday, alleged that some mothers are taking loans to buy their sons laptops to start internet scam, known as ‘yahoo yahoo.’
Sharing his thoughts on the menace, Onakoya said what stopped him from venturing into fraud was because he couldn’t afford a laptop at age 17.
He said, “Allow me weigh in a bit on the Tech and “Yahoo” boys conversation lest we risk becoming a generation of reactionary young people with zero will to do the hard things required to solve hard problems.
“Having conversations like this on Twitter can be daunting especially when it’s one with a lot of grey areas.
I’ll start off with saying that as a 17year old teenager from Ikorodu, the only thing that prevented me from getting into “Yahoo” was because I couldn’t afford a Laptop.
“Not morals, not religion, not convictions. If someone had introduced me to HK then,maybe I would have been on a much different path- One that leads to “Tunde wire.”
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“This desperation became deeply rooted In my heart due to the many nights I watched my mother go to bed hungry.
“Things are a lot more intense now, as mothers are taking loans and plunging themselves into massive debts to buy Laptops for their sons to start doing “Yahoo”. This is not hearsay.
To them, a worthy sacrifice as it could be their only ticket out of generational poverty.”
