P.W.1 who is a staff of the Federal Ministry of Lands, Housing and
Urban Development identified Exhibit 1 as the report issued by the
Ministry after verification of Appendix A and Appendix B. His unchallenged
testimony is that he was part of the team that worked on the documents.
His schedule of work includes allocation of land and preparation of
certificates of occupancy for lands allocated. His testimony is as follows:
“Sometimes last year, the EFCC wrote a letter to my Ministry.
One of the operatives of the EFCC came in person to
investigate a case of fraud pertaining to the said parcel of
land which was allocated by the Ministry to one Mary Okoh.
Two certificates of occupancy were attached to the letter. Both
of them were purported to be the originals. One was marked
Appendix A and the other marked Appendix B. The Ministry
was asked to verify which was the original. I was the leader
of the team in our Abuja office that worked with the Federal
officer of Deeds to verify the documents. Upon verification, we
found that Appendix A was the authentic document while
Appendix B was a cloned copy of the original. The Ministry
through the Registrar wrote a letter to the EFCC indicating that
Appendix A was the authentic document while Exhibit B was a
clone.”
P.W.2 who worked with Lead British International School identified
Appendix A as the document given to the school when it purchased the
land. He also tendered a Power of Attorney transferring the land from
Mary Okoh to Dyna Ladejj & Co. and a Deed of Assignment executed
between British International School and Dyna Ladejj Investment.
Count two of the charge allege the offence of forgery of a certificate
of occupancy with No. 77/77/73 dated 7th August 2001. Appendix A and
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