travelled all the way from Enugu to Sokoto on the 3/4/2018.
On arrival, he met a taxi driver in person of one Sunday Mba
and ask Sunday where he could get a bureau de change
operator and Sunday Mba took him to the complainant’s
office as a genuine customer who want to buy American
dollars. After negotiating with the complainant to buy $50 US
Dollars, the suspect at large, requested for the complainant’s
account details in order to make payment of naira equivalent.
The complainant sent the account details via a text message
into phone number provided by the suspect now at large and
he immediately forwarded the text message to the team
members in Enugu. The same information was used to fill the
2 cheque leaves as I earlier stated crediting the account of the
complainant (PW1) and it is the same 2 cheque leaves that
were presented by the defendant at Diamond Bank Okpara
Avenue, Enugu and at that time it was Udoma Joseph who
was the payment cashier at that Diamond Bank Okpara
Avenue, Enugu.
The cheques were collected by the said payment cashier
Udoma Joseph and forwarded for clearance but before the
clearance was given, Udoma Joseph credited the account of
the beneficiary in person of Aliyu Sahabi Yar Abba with the
sum of N10 million and N8 million N250 thousand naira.
After clearance process it was found at that the account of CF
and IS have no cash backing to effect the payment, and so the
payment was reversed. That is all.
Onyeka Ekweazor Esq: You said a petition was written to your office, if
you see the petition, can you identify it?
PW3:
Yes, and there was written on the letter head of ‘Yar Abba
BDC. It has our EFCC received stamp.
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