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Thursday 19 January 2012

~25-yr-old Corps Member Arrested For Swindling Visa Applicants~...Detectives attached to the Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Ikoyi, Lagos, have nabbed a 25-year- old youth corps member, Aliyu Ajobola, over an alleged fraud. Crimewatch had earlier published the report of one Fred Makanjuola (at large), who fraudulently packaged programmes and invited interested Nigerians, who wanted to live and work in Canada to apply. Makanjuola had always told his victims that the programme was free of charge but our checks revealed that applicants were expected to sign bond to pay back, double what he spent in the process. This scam was said to have been going on before the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP) bust the racket. It was gathered that to further convince and confuse his teeming victims, the suspect organised a symposium at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), invited some ‘resource persons’ he claimed to have been drawn from the banking sector, Nigeria Immigration Service, among others, to lecture the victims how to travel to Canada to actualise their dreams without tarnishing the image of Nigeria. Among other guests invited to the symposium was one Barrister Odion, who claimed to be the representative of GT bank.he has been charged to court ..

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