A man who has been parading as an army
officer in Obudu for months was arrested a
few days ago after complaints from youths
he had defrauded promising them admission
into the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA.
The alleged fake army officer identified as
(Major Kola Elijah) is currently at the Obudu
Police division for defrauding members of
the public of money amounting to over a
million naira.
Some of those he defrauded include; Aweli
Gabriel Lishiliniye N150, 000, Kashim
Adeloye Ebenezer N406, 500, Abiabe Godwin
Ugbe N210, 000, and Audor Peter Bekeh
N335, 000.
"It was after his arrest that we
discovered that he is not a soldier but
runs a boutique in Calabar. He just
came to town to latch on the
ignorance and desperation of young
people to get into NDA and has been
using that to swindle them." a security
source told CrossRiverWatch