ASP Lawal Mainasara, a Police officer attached to Land and Property
Fraud Unit, EFCC, gave evidence as PW2. His evidence is that a petition
dated 17/2/2014 was minuted to his unit. After going through the petition,
they invited the complainant [the PW1]. PW1 adopted his petition. The 1st
defendant was invited and shown a copy of the petition. He voluntarily
wrote his statement and signed it. Letter was written to Corporate Affairs
Commission to determine who the directors of 2nd defendant were. Two
letters were written to First Bank Plc. Investigation revealed that the 2nd
defendant floated Ambassadors Estate with the aim to deceive and
defraud unknown public in the pretext of selling plots of land as owner/
occupier. 2nd defendant and 1st defendant [its managing director] had no
such land for sale in Abuja. Several times, the investigating team requested
1st defendant to produce a document showing that he or the 2nd defendant
had any allocation of plot from FCDA or any of the Area Councils in
Abuja. The 1st defendant could not produce any document.
The PW2 tendered the following documents:
1. PW1’s petition dated 17/2/2014 together with attached documents are
Exhibit A.
2. First Bank Plc. cheques for N120,000.00 dated 23/5/2013 and N5
million dated 22/5/2013 are respectively Exhibits B1 & B2.
3. Letter dated 28/2/2014 from EFCC to Corporate Affairs Commission
is Exhibit C1; while letter dated 8/4/2014 from Corporate Affairs
Commission to EFCC [together with the attached documents] are
Exhibit C2.
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