Court Registrar SentencedTo 10Years Imprisonment For Aiding Fred Ajudua To Defraud Gen. Bamaiyi

Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of the Lagos High
Court has sentenced a Court Registrar, Oluronke
Rosolu, to 10 years imprisonment for aiding and
abetting Fred Ajudua to defraud former Chief of
Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi (retd) of
$330,000 while he was in Kirikiri Prisons.
According to a report by PM News, Rosolu is
accused of visiting Kirikiri prisons on three
occasions in 2004 and collected $300,000 from
Bamaiyi under the pretense that the money
would be used to secure legal services from Afe
Babalola chambers for him.
During her trial, the accused denied all the
allegations against her and insisted that she
never visited the prisons as alleged by the EFCC
or collected any money. She also denied ever
meeting Ajudua or General Bamaiyi.
While delivering judgment today, Justice Lawal-
Akapo said EFCC was able to prove the case of
conspiracy and obtaining of money by false
pretence against her. He ruled that despite
denying any contact or meeting with Ajudua in
Kirikiri prisons, evidence presented by the EFCC
showed that Rosolu and Ajudua were co-
conspirators.
On the allegation that she never collected any
money from Bamaiyi while in prison, the judge
held that not being able to show where she was
on the dates she was purported to have visited
the prisons and collected the money, he had no
option but to believe the evidence of the EFCC
witnesses.
Justice Lawal-Akapo subsequently held that the
EFCC has proved its case beyond all reasonable
doubt
In her defensive, Rosolu said she never had any
personal interaction with Ajuua and Bamaiyi.
She said..
"I did not receive $330,000 from Lt. Gen.
Ishaya Bamaiyi neither did I go to the Kirikiri
Maximum Prisons to see him on Dec. 20, 2004. I
knew Bamaiyi and Ajudua only as defendants in
separate criminal cases before Justice Oyewole.
I never had any personal interactions with either
of them until I was summoned by the EFCC in
Abuja in 2013.''