Instagram comedian Ankara Gucci has asked people to stop tagging him a yahoo boy after a man arrested by th EFCC has close resemblance with him.

While reacting in a post he updated on his Instagram page, Ankara Gucci wrote that even though the man looks like him, he has never dyed his hair as the man in the photo did.


Ankara Gucci reacts as EFCC arrests Yahoo boy that looks like him
The suspected yahoo boy, Ogungbemi Jogo was arrested alongside Olorunwa Okikiola and Olurunfemi Olamide in Agric area of Ilorin.

Other suspects namely: Kayode Obanewo a.k.a Samantha James, Muhammed Ademola a.ka Catherine Smith, Yusuf Rasheed a.k.a Rebecca Moore and Apata Oluwakayode a.k.a Hanna Cole, were arrested on June 11, 2019 at Mandate Estate Phase 2, behind Irewolede area of Ilorin.

During interrogation, Obanewo confessed to committing the crime.

According to him:

“I was arrested on the 11th of June 2019 at Mandate Estate Phase 2, but before the day of my arrest, I met a friend who introduced me to internet fraud. He gave me a laptop which was the reason behind my arrest. I saw one email address on the laptop and started using it to chat with some people at night when I come back from work,” he said.