PW4 Ibrahim Shugaba was the I.P.O. who obtained the statements of the accused person. Exhibits G1, G2 and G3 respectively, the statements were written by the accused person in his own handwriting but he insisted that he was tortured before he wrote those statements. The statements of the accused person were admitted in evidence after a well-conducted trial-within-trial. The accused person gave evidence for his own defence as DW1. He claimed to have office at Wuse Market where he helps landlord to rent out their shops to prospective tenants and that he had been doing that for three years before he was arrested by EFCC; he normally collect agency fees from the tenants. The accused further stated that two of the nominal complainants made part-payments and demanded their money back but the landlord who is in possession of the money told them to wait until another tenant made payment then that their money would be refunded. One of the nominal complainants who made full payment the landlord told him to exercise patience. The accused claimed to know PW2 Chimezie Nwachukwu who paid N400,000.00 for half shop remaining the balance of N200,000.00 which he never paid the accused claimed that the N400,000.00 PW2 paid was remitted to the landlord, he further claimed to make an agreement with PW2 to pay back the money but PW2 refused and joined others to report the matter to EFCC, accused blamed his incarceration for not paying back the money to the nominal complainant. 8