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PW1 under cross-examination stated that they requested 6 documents from the
University of Ilorin which were all made available to them. Unfortunately, there is one
vital document to this case, which has not been made available to this Court till the time
of writing this judgment. That document is the one mentioned in (a) above by the
complainant, that is, a duplicate copy of the statement of result issued to the accused
person. Even Exhibit F dated 28th February, 2011 addressed to the Chairman of the
EFCC, which variously stated in the letter that the accused person graduated with a third
class honours, and which a copy of the University convocation and the accused person’s
transcript was attached, still the copy of the accused’s duplicate of statement of result was
not include.
2.
I am duty bound to tell the prosecution and any person listening to this judgment
that, the Serious allegation against the accused person in this Court is that he knew
that he graduated with a third class degree, yet he presented a second class lower
degree to the EFCC, which they employed him based on what he presented. PW1,
who was in charge of investigating the accused person’s case and who testified in
this Court on 27/03/2012 that he went to the University of Ilorin and met the Vice
Chancellor and two DVC’S; the Registrar and the Deputy Registrar and according
to him, when he presented the accused person’s result that he gave to them, the
Vice Chancellor there and then rejected and said it doesn’t belong to them. The
question is why the rush in rejecting the document?
Why didn’t the Vice
Chancellor call the accused person’s record for careful investigation before the
outright rejection?
I am astonished when PW1 testified that another result of the accused person’s
colleague was brought and found it not to be the same with that of the accused
person because that of the accused was tippexed; the character and the signature
were not the same. That they certified that of the accused person’s colleague and
gave to PW1. What perplexed me really is that PW1 did not say that a duplicate
copy of the accused person’s statement of result showing that he graduated with