COUNT 3
That you Sulaiman Yusuf Sheriff on or about November 2007 at Kubwa
pretended to be an official of the Federal Capital Development Authority
Abuja (FCDA) responsible for sale of Federal Government Houses and in
Such assumed character did receive the sum of N560,000 (five hundred
and sixty thousand naira) from Mrs. Adekunbi Ajadi before she can collect
her offer letter in respect of Block 13 Flat 2 Federal Capital Development
Authority (FCDA) owners occupier Kubwa and thereby committed an
offence contrary to an punishable under section 132 of the penal code.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to all the three counts charge. In an
effort to prove its case the prosecution called five witnesses and also
tendered in evidence the following exhibits thus:
1. A petition written to ICPC Exhibit A
2. A letter of undertaking acknowledging the receipt of N560,000.00 by
the defendant exhibit B
3. Statement of PW2 Adira Akinson Exhibit C
4. 510 pieces of N1000 denomination exhibits D (a) 1 – 510 100 pieces
of N500 denomination exhibits D (b) 1 – 100
5. Photocopies of the serial No’s of the sum of N560,000.00 being an
entry made by the PW 4 Chukwura Alexandra in the exhibit register
of special duties department ICPC. And photocopies of original
N560,000 already admitted in evidence exhibit E.
6. Statement of PW5 exhibit F.
The summary of the offences for which the defendant is standing trial are
thus, being a public servant he solicited for the sum of N560,000 from Mrs.
Adekunbi Ajadi as gratification before she can collect her offer letter in
respect of block 13 flat 2 FCDA owners occupier. Kubwa. Accepting
gratification in the sum of N560,000 from Mrs. Afekunbi Ajadi before she
can collect her offer letter in respect of block 13 flat 2 FCDA owners
occupier Kubwa. And being a public servant falsely represented himself as
a staff of FCDA and in such assumed character he received the sum of
N560,000 from Mrs. Adekunbi Ajadi before she can collect her offer letter
in respect of Block 13 Flat 2 FCDA owners occupier Kubwa. All these
offences fall under sections 18 (d) ICPC Act 2000 and 132 of the penal
code law respectively. These sections provides.
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