EFCC to arraign Ajudua for defrauding Bamaiyi of $8.4 million

Ajudua

February 12, 2014, has been fixed by a Lagos High Court, Ikeja, Lagos as the date for the arraignment of serial fraudster Fred Ajudua, for fresh charges of defrauding a former Chief Of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi (retd) of about $8.395 million.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in the fresh charges dated October 14, 2013, alleged that Ajudua along with others still at large, had committed the crime between November 2004 and June 2005.
Other suspects who were said to be on the run are Alumile Adedeji (Ade Bendel) and one Mr. Kenneth, one Mr. Jonathan and Princess Hamabon William.
Ajudua along with the suspects were said to have defrauded Bamaiyi at the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons, where he and other fraud suspects were on remand for various crimes.

EFCC claimed that the suspects had fraudulently collected the money from Bamaiyi in parts, falsely claiming that the payments represented the professional fees charged by Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), to handle Bamaiyi's case in court and to facilitate his release from prison.