revalidation and recertification. The Defendant, by exhibit 6(a) his
additional statement, also admitted receiving the sum of
N3,900,000.00 from PW2, Maryam Buba and not N2,900,000.00
for sale of the property L84 Dape District belonging to PW5.
I however, observed that the Defendant in exhibit 6 states: “I prepared Power of Authority between Aminu
Kofar Mata and Mr. Lamar Abba Gana Gadzama
and registered it at Abuja Geographic Information
System (AGIS) and appending my signature. The
reason of preparing of this Power of Authority is to
change or transfer Statutory Right from Mr. Lamar
Abba Gana Gadzama and Aminu Kofar Mata to
Lamar Abba Gana Gadzama. Lamar Abba Gana
Gadzama authorized me to prepare the Power of
Authority, to prepare the paper and sold Plot No.
L84 measuring about 2,025 square meter at Dape
District to Hajiya Maryam Buba at the cost of
N2,900,000.00 and hand over the title documents
for her.”
In quick response to the above statement of the Defendant in
exhibit 6, the learned prosecuting Counsel at page 8 paragraph 3
of her final written address submitted thus: “We submit with respect that the Defendant did
not present any evidence to show that Lamar
Abba Gana Gadzama authorised him to sell and
we further submit that the evidence of PW5 and
PW7 with the receipt of sale dated June 15th, 2005
attached to exhibit 1, there is no way Lamar Abba
Gana could have authorised him to sell the Plot of
land because as at 2009 when the Defendant sold
the land in question to PW2, the land did not
belong to Lamar Abba Gana. By the sale receipt
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