Fred Ajudua has been remanded in Kirikiri Prison
for allegedly defrauding former Chief of Army
Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi (retd.), of about
$8.395m (about N1.3 billion).
Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye ordered on Wednesday
that he should be remanded in prisons custody
following a fresh 13-count charge of fraud
brought against him by EFCC.
The EFCC in the fresh charges dated 14 October,
2013, alleged that Ajudua, along with others still
at large, defrauded Gen. Bamaiyi of $8.387m
between November 2004 and June 2005 while in
prison.
Ajudua is the only defendant in the fresh charges
as others who allegedly committed the offences
along with him are said to be at large. Continue...
Other suspects said to be on the run, are Alumile
Adedeji (a.k.a Ade Bendel), Mr. Kenneth and
Princess Hamabon William.
Ajudua, along with other suspects, were said to
have defrauded Bamaiyi at the Kirikiri Maximum
Prisons, where he and the other fraud suspects
were on remand for various crimes.
EFCC claimed that the suspects had fraudulently
collected the money from Bamaiyi instalmentally,
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.
The anti-graft agency also alleged that Ajudua
and others fraudulently claimed that $1m out of
the total money collected from Bamaiyi was for
financial assistance for the treatment of Justice
Olubunmi Oyewole’s father. Justice Oyewole was
then presiding over Bamaiyi’s case in court.
The suspects were said to have told Bamaiyi that
Oyewole’s father was admitted at Saint Nicholas
Hospital in Lagos and the $1m was meant to
assist the judge in treating his father.
When the charges were read to him today, he
pleaded not guilty to the allegations.
His bail application was however not heard as the
presiding judge adjourned the matter till 20
February, 2014.
Ajudua is also standing trial in another court for
allegedly defrauding two Dutch businessmen,
Remy Cina and Pierre Vijgen, of $1.69m (about
N270m). The matter has been on since 2003.
Source: PM News
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