Ugonna, but stated that it was only to the tune of N254,000.00. PW3 said that in
his statement, the Defendant said that some of his syndicate members, about
four of them, were driving along Dapo – Kubwa road when they stopped and
picked Dozie Ugonna (PW1). That while driving, one of the syndicate members
raised an alarm that he has some money i. e. dollars in the booth and they
deliberated whether to report the incident to the Police. PW3 stated that
unknown to Dozie Ugonna every other person in the car was in the same
syndicate. He said that they now drove to an unidentified location where one
Bala Tangalu, the Defendant came out from a closed place at the location and
stated that there is a curse on the money and there is the need for them to break
the curse, but before he could break the spell every person in the vehicle should
take oath not to tell any other person. PW3 stated that Bala Tangalu, who is the
head of the syndicate, asked each of them to go and bring money in order to
break the spell. With that, he was able to put fear into PW1 who kept bringing
money in order to do a charm and break the spell. PW3 stated that in his
statement to the EFCC, the Defendant only accepted that he collected the sum of
N254,000.00 and not N2,514,000.00.
PW3 informed the Court that his team, wrote a letter of investigation activities to
GTBank and Ecobank PLC as to the accounts belonging to Mr. Dozie, and when
they received the statements of accounts from the two banks, they analysed
same and the source from which Mr. Dozie withdrew monies from the accounts
at various times were ascertained. PW3 added that the N300,000.00 which Mr
Dozie said he borrowed from a friend was also ascertained. PW3 said the period
of the review was between July, 2016 to November, 2016. He stated that they
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