The Nominal Complainant, Effiong Nsungusi, PW4 is the
Proprietor of Fine Trust Academy. He testified that he knows
the 1st and 2nd Defendants. He specifically testified that he
knows the 1st Defendant as a Land Officer in Abuja Municipal
Area Council while the 2nd Defendant as Zonal Manager. PW4
then testified that sometimes in 1997, he obtained a land
application on which he completed for allocation of land in
favour of Fine Trust Academy. PW4 testified that he was
allocated Plot SSI Jikwoyi and he paid all the necessary fees
and he was issued with title deed plan of Plot SS1 Jikwoyi
Extension III. According to PW4 he took possession of the land
and indeed was farming on the land and had taken possession.
He testified that sometimes in 2005 Mr. Patrick Pillah, the 1st
Defendant met him in his school and said to him that he was
informed that he was in possession of title documents of SS1
and PW4 said ‘yes’. According to PW4 that the 1st Defendant
told him that the land belongs to him and that he has all the
title documents. PW4 testified that the 1st Defendant requested
to see PW4’s title documents and the 1st Defendant showed to
him the photocopies of his own title documents over the land.
PW4 testified that he told the 1st Defendant that he will not
show him his title documents. PW4 testified further that the 1st
Defendant told him that in his own interest he should return
the land papers and he should not go to that land again.
PW4 testified that after about few weeks he was invited by the
Divisional Police Officer Jikwoyi Police Station and PW4
reported at the Station. According to PW4, the Police told him
that he had trespassed into somebody’s land and PW4 told the
Police it was not true. PW4 testified that the Investigation
Police Officer asked him whether he has title documents of the
land and PW4 answered ‘yes’. PW4 then produced his title
documents and the Police then told him that they cannot
resolve this issue as both of them have title documents and
advised them to go to the place that issued them with the title
documents. PW4 testified that sometimes in 2008, the 1st
Defendant went to the land with some people and dug a
foundation round the land. PW4 testified that he wrote a letter
of complaint to Abuja Municipal Area Council for illegal
encroachment of the land. According to PW4, Abuja Municipal
Area Council investigated the matter in 2008 and asked the 1st
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