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PW1, the truck did not arrive that weekend, and, so she PW1 complained to the
Defendant's husband, who told her not to worry.
According to PW1, the following Sunday, the defendant and her husband
came to her house, explaining to her the rice, beans and oil had not come to
Warri yet because the person who was to bring them had not done so. Then,
PW1 stated that she, PW1 told the defendant to go and bring the goods herself,
and, the Defendant left and a week later, complained that, there was no truck to
bring the goods.
PW1 then narrated how she complained about this development to another
man who deals in onions and how they then made arrangements with someone
else up North to bring the said goods with additional transportation cost of two
hundred and ten thousand Naira. According to PW1, the Defendant then
switched off her mobile phone line and, so she could not be reached on where
the goods were"
PW1 then narrated to this court how she called the Defendant the next
days, and how she had to pay another sum of N50,000 to another driver
introduced to her by the Defendant to bring the said goods. PW1 said the
Defendant claimed that the goods would arrive the next day, but that was never
to be.
PW1 then narrated to this court how she complained again to the man
dealing in onions who had volunteered to help her, and that the said man placed
a call up north, spoke in Hausa language to the transporter up North, only to
discover that the man up North was not a transporter, but someone whom the
Defendant stays with whenever she goes up North. Also, that the man's name is
ldrisAdamu"
PW1 then narrated to this Court how she started looking for the Defendant,
because, her lines were switched off, and how she placed a call to the
Defendant's husband, who in turn told her that he was not her husband, and, that
the defendant had told him to claim to be such. PW1 stated that she then went to
the police and upon reaching her house, the Defendant's neighbours informed
them that she, the defendant had moved to another unknown location. PW1 told
this court that it was with the tracking device of the police that the Defendant was
eventually arrested, and that she the Defendant was found of switching off her
phone then.
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