So I waited for him till 5-6pm and he came back with a bag
and gave me N100,000 at the backyard. So I collected the
money and left. Some weeks later, I started hearing the
rumour that the money he got was more than N1.2 million,
so I called him on phone and ask the defendant that how can
he give me N100,000 when the money is more than N1.2
million? He said I shouldn’t worry as he would do something
for me as there are many people in the business. To date he
has not return the cheque book. At the time he said I
shouldn’t worry, he was at his home village at Akwa Ibom
State. When he came back my parents were already arrested
by EFCC in Enugu and I told him the business was of
N18,000,000 not N1.2 million as he said. He said I should
not expose those involved otherwise myself will also be
arrested. He subsequently change his line and can no longer
reach him, but later I was invited by EFCC, Enugu Office
where I was asked whether I know the defendant after they
showed me his picture? I said I don’t know him because the
defendant said all of us will go to prison if I expose him. I
made a statement at EFCC of there in Enugu. The officials of
EFCC then took me to Diamond Bank office at Okpara
Avenue, Enugu and showed me the coloured picture in the
system and they confirm it was not me. I was then ask to go
to Kaduna EFCC office and I was there and also made
statement. They then ask me to find a way to get the
defendant arrested.
I later chattered with the defendant on face book and he
responded by asking me the position of the case. I told him
the case was settled. After some month the defendant came
back to Enugu at that Police Detective College. When the
EFCC Kaduna called me I told them that the defendant is
back at that time. After some weeks, I told the defendant to
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