between 2 – 3 months. He said when confronted, Bala Tangalu owned up immediately and he was given the statement form to write what he confessed to them. PW2 stated that effort made to get the other gang members proved abortive. He said they when they asked the Defendant if he could refund the Complainant (PW1) he phoned his elder sister, Sierra Tangalu, who was a staff of the World Bank very close to the DSS FCT Office in Asokoro. He stated that when the sister came they brought the Defendant and asked him to tell the sister what he had done. PW2 said that the Defendant told his sister that himself and his gang members collected over N2.5 Million from the Complainant and pleaded with his sister to help refund the victim, but the sister said it was too much a burden for her to bear at that time. PW2 said that the sister went on to explain how her brother Bala Tangalu had been a “thorn in the flesh” to the family and stated that he had been in this “one-chance” business for too long and each time he was arrested the family had kept paying what he had collected from his victims. He stated that the sister told them that the family made several efforts to make him quit the illicit business and had at different times bought him three cars which he ended up not accounting for. PW2 stated that the Defendant’s Sister then asked to be given time to return the following day 19th November, 2016, but she never came back. PW2 told the Court that when he placed a call to the Defendant’s Sister shae came and communicated the family decision that the Defendant should face up to his crime. PW2 stated that at that time the management of the DSS packaged the case and handed over same to the EFCC since the matter fell under their 18