Ex-petroleum Minister made remarks about ‘Yahoo boys’ while delivering a lecture at a virtual event on fatherhood and Ijaw women’s participation in politics which held on Friday, August 7, 2020. According to her, the youths have made ‘Yahoo boys’ aka internet fraudsters, their role models.
Alison-Madueke said:
“The ones that have swag, the Yahoo Yahoo boys as my son would say; these in short, are the role models they are looking at. These are the ones that reinforce negative societal norms and values,”
Nigerians however took to Twitter to criticize her statement. You recall that she had allegedly fled Nigeria for the United Kingdom as soon as Jonathan lost the 2015 election with reports making the rounds that she was treating cancer there. The 59-year-old has been under EFCC investigation for a while now for looting about $2.5 billion.
Now, Nigerians celebrities have been reacting to Diezani Alison-Madueke’s statement about Yahoo Boys. See some of their tweets below:
Former Petroleum Minister, Dieziani Alison-Madueke, Speaking on Fatherhood, and making a case for Ijaw Women’s voice to heard, praised GEJ for the numbers of women during his administration. Pt 4 pic.twitter.com/1LCNDgoYbT
— Jackson Ude (@jacksonpbn) August 9, 2020
Our country is beyond repair at this rate. Diezani who has stolen billions and has the bloody balls to give a speech on how Yahoo boys are destroying Nigeria . And she knows she can do this and nothing will happen to her because our government is weak! And joke .
— Bolanle Olukanni (@bolanleolukanni) August 10, 2020
See normally I would laugh but this is so ridiculous. This lady must have lost her damn mind to come online and spew this nonsense. How are you different from a fraudster ma? She actually has no shame, which is sadly common for a lot of our (present and past) politicians. pic.twitter.com/J4aLgKjjpQ
— Toolz O.D (@ToolzO) August 10, 2020