Sahabi Yar Abba (PW1) a bureau de change operator residing here in Sokoto alleging that the sum of N18,250,000 equivalent to $50 US Dollars was fraudulently obtained from him by false pretence using the cheque of CF and TS Okafor. Upon the approval of the petition, investigation begins. The complainant made a statement and letter was written to Diamond Bank where the account of the complainant is domiciled for his account details. Response was received from the bank, analysis and confirming the allegation revealing the lodgement of 2 chequeleafe of First Bank of the value of N10 million and N8 million N250 respectively which were both reversed. Having confirmed that these cheques were lodged at Okpara Avenue of Diamond Bank Enugu, we requested for the CCTV footage of the person who lodge those cheques, and the bank gave us the footage in which it was confirmed to be the defendant. We then invited the cashier of the Diamond Bank Enugu in the name of Joseph Uduma who honoured our invitation and made statement. We also requested for the 2 cheque leaves and were released to us. From our analysis, the name of CF and IS Okafor were found to be the owners of the cheques leaves and the account. We immediately wrote to First Bank where the account was domiciled to unreveal the signatures to the account. Response was received from First Bank revealing one Ijeoma Okafor and one Francis Okafor as the signatories to the account. We then travelled to Enugu, traced their addresses and took them to our office for statement. In the course of their statements, we realized that they have a son Nzude Okafor, so he was also invited and statement taking from him. We therefore detected as a fact that Nzude took their cheque book and gave to the defendant who used Page 11 of 34

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