undergraduates out to defraud unsuspecting applicants
of the ongoing Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Recruitment
Exercise 2016 and they were paraded today before the
press in Abuja. The duo, Endurance Ehichoya (Principal
Suspect) and David Eghosa (Accomplice), both 21 years
old and students of Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma,
were arrested in Ekpoma by NAF Intelligence operatives
with the assistance of Zenith Bank officials.
Their arrest followed a message posted on Facebook by
Endurance Ehichoya on 25 June this year, requesting
applicants to contact the Air Secretary, AVM CN Chukwu,
through the GSM Number 08145038139 for enlistment
assistance into the NAF. The message also contained the
photograph of the Air Secretary to lure their would-be
clients into believing that the scam is real.
When contacted on the said phone number, Endurance
had requested the caller to pay the sum of N75,000 into
his Savings Account (Account No: 6231232675) with
Fidelity Bank. However, the caller, wanting to retrieve as
much information as possible to track down the suspect,
had requested that he be provided another bank account
on the ground that there is no Fidelity Bank around his
area. This made Endurance to drop the details of his
friend, David Eghosa’s bank account with Zenith Bank
(Account No: 2111200283). The NAF, working with the
officials of Zenith Bank, then deployed his security
operatives from 81 Air Maritime Group Benin to Ekpoma
to arrest David Eghosa who was subsequently flown to
Abuja for further investigation.
Realizing that Eghosa had been arrested, his relations
got the Police to arrest Endurance Ehichoya, and handed
him over to the NAF. He also was flown to Abuja by the
NAF for further investigation.
While both suspects confessed to operating multiple
bank accounts, David Eghosa confirmed he knows his
friend, Endurance Ehichoya, is a serial scammer,
indulging in recruitment and local online dating scam
using ladies’ names and photographs to defraud men
online. Two of the Facebook accounts operated by
Endurance to commit fraud online are Bridget Ehichoya
Violet which he later renamed Ella Jonny Frosh, and
Creflo A Dollar. The suspects have now been handed
over to the police for further investigation.
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