COMMERCIAL activities were paralysed in some areas in Ibadan on Thursday as youths took to the streets to protest what they described as illegal arrests by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The protesters barricaded the main entrance of the government secretariat at Agodi and disrupted the free flow of human and vehicular movements.
They alleged youths are being harassed and arrested unjustly under trumped-up charges, including internet fraud by EFCC officials.
They also claimed youths could no longer walk freely on the streets for fear of being arrested by EFCC officials.
One of the protesters who identified himself as Samuel said they were protesting indiscriminate arrests by EFCC officials who label them as internet fraudsters.
He said despite being an engineer and a real estate investor, he had been arrested on several occasions by EFCC operatives who accused him of being a fraudster, just as he added that the protest was to intimate the government on what youths are passing through.
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