Nigerian Air Force operatives have arrested two 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
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.
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.