from the letters, there were still bundles of files and names of individuals whom they were documenting. Amongst the names are Ahmadu Philips, Faith oghoma, Abubakar Umar, Suleiman Ahmed Suleiman, Adullai Sani Alhaji, Ngere James. There was also a file tagged ‘Movement File’. That some of the files contain documents such as Bank Account Opening Forms, Age Declaration, Photocopies of Letters of Appointment. Exhibits A – A25 – The alleged fake appointment letters. Exhibit B – B78 – 79- Pieces of forged acceptance letters. Exhibit C – C10 -11 – Files recovered from the Defendant. He said the appointment letters before this Court are fake. That he can differentiate them by their colour and features. That the appointment letter of Junior Staff is milk while in colour but Defendants issued yellowish letters. The authorization in the year in question is signed by Obiajulu Obiageli but the fake letters which are Exhibits A – A25 are signed by Engineer Bello. The inscription on the paper is ‘Conqueror’ but the fake Exhibits is ‘Royal Security bond.’ The paragraphing of their appointment letters have numbers 1 -8 omitting 7 but theirs is serial. Exhibit D is the original letter of appointment of NSCDC. Their acceptance letter is done with normal A4 whereas that of NSCDC is longer than A4. There is a generic number on the right corner of the original acceptance letter with a specific no. 75 but the Defendants’ are such that numbers are used randomly. Exhibit E is the original acceptance letter of NSCDC. The Defendants wrote their statements themselves. They are countersigned by KIZITO AMAIKWU as a Superior Officer. Exhibits F-F1 – Statements of the Defendants. 6

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