A Nigerian lady has gone viral after recounting a terrifying experience she claimed brought an end to her relationship with an alleged internet fraudster, popularly known as a Yahoo boy.
In a video shared on social media, the lady narrated how she allegedly found herself hiding inside a cemetery in the middle of the night after reports surfaced that EFCC operatives were carrying out arrests in the area.
According to her, she had gone to visit her then-boyfriend at his hostel when someone suddenly banged on the door, warning that EFCC officials were arresting suspected Yahoo boys nearby.
She recalled:
“So on this fateful day, imagine you are just sleeping and suddenly you heard, ‘Bang! Bang! Bang! Open the door! Open the door!’ from your ex-boyfriend’s friend.
“His friend said he received a call from the nearest hotel that EFCC is now around the area and are arresting G-guys there, and we should hurriedly leave because they are coming over to our side too.”
The lady said her boyfriend immediately woke her up and insisted they flee without giving her enough time to pick up her phone.
“He didn’t even allow me to pick my phone. I told him, ‘What if my parents want to call me if things eventually go wrong?’ I sha wasn’t able to pick my phone.”
She explained that they escaped by climbing over a high fence into a neighbouring compound, only to discover where they had landed moments later.
“I wasn’t comfortable with what I was seeing in the building. So I asked him, ‘Where are we, please?’ Only for him to tell me we were inside a cemetery. Cemetery keh? He said it was a Muslim cemetery.”
She said the discovery left her terrified.
“That’s how I started seriously crying in the midnight. It wasn’t even the EFCC that was making me cry now, it was the cemetery because it really shocked me that I’m in the midst of corpses around 2 a.m. in the midnight.
“Even my mum knows I hate standing beside corpses.”
Her story has since generated widespread reactions online, with many social media users expressing shock, while others reacted humorously to her unusual escape experience.