26.Revenue Collector’s Receipt dated 15th September, 2008 and 11th May,
1993 were admitted as Exhibit P26 a and b.
27.Payment of Processing Fee dated 11th May, 1993 was admitted as Exhibit
P27.
Under cross-examination, PW1 described the disputed plot as plot 1528, Katampe
District and that it was allocated to Sunday Ameh Ako alone and not to any other
person. PW1 stated that the Right of Occupancy they sent to AGIS given by
defendant is a forged or cloned copy of the original and that AGIS confirmed this.
Further that AGIS confirmed that all the other title documents defendant gave
petitioner did not emanate from them. Also that from their investigation, they are
not aware of any double allocation in respect of plot 1528. That the defendant
gave the complainant a forged copy of the title document which was found to be
forged by AGIS. PW1 stated that he is not aware that EFCC is investigating and
even prosecuting several AGIS officials.
PW2 is Fredricks E. Itula, the nominal complainant or petitioner. His evidence is
that sometimes in July, 2008, one Mr. Paul came to him with title documents of
Plot 1528, Katampe District, and he claimed that the owner of the plot is one
Abdulwaheed Popoola, the defendant. They met with the defendant and sought to
conduct a search on the plot but the search could not be conducted as the title
documents were not recertified. They then agreed on N3.9Million for the plot and
they also agreed to set aside N300,000 for recertification and registration of the
Power of Attorney. A draft of N150,000 was raised for recertification and another
draft of N100,000 for the registration of Power of Attorney. PW2 stated also that
at this point, the defendant wanted his Nissan Altima 2002 car which, PW2 wanted
to sell. They agreed price at N1.6 Million for the car and he handed to the
defendant the car and a cash of N200, 000 which were to be part of the purchasing
price of the said plot of land. The total amount given to the defendant is N2,
050,000. The defendant thereafter handed to PW2 the following documents:
Original Letter of offer; copy of the acceptance letter of offer and receipt for the
application of the land, all of plot 1528.
PW2 stated that armed with the foregoing documents, he applied for recertification
and paid N150,000. After some weeks, AGIS called PW2’s law firm requesting
for all the documents they have; PW2 took the documents to AGIS and the
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