Fake army officer caught in Cross River State after defrauding victims of over N1 million

A man who claimed to be an army officer in Obudu for months has been 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. 

Pictured below shows some bank tellers showing money paid by victims.

  

"It was later discovered that he was not a soldier, he 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