Court:
Prosecution you may proceed.
Onyeka Ekweazor Esq: Our PW1 is one Aliyu Sahabi Yar Abba. He is
going to give his evidence in Hausa language. We apply that
he be called into the witness box.
Court:
Leave to call Aliyu Sahabi Yar Abba as PW1 into the witness
box, is hereby granted while the remaining 2 witnesses be out
of court.
Registrar: Affirm yourself to interpret from English to Hausa and vice
versa.
PW1 (After affirmation): My name is Aliyu Sahabi Yar Abba. I am a
money exchange businessman. I live at Old Market, Sokoto. I
don’t know the defendant. Sometimes in April, 2018 precisely
3/4/2018, at about 11:00am there is one Sunday Mba an
Igbo man came to our office with one Ibo man at Old Market
Sultan Bello road and said they needed American Dollar of
Fifty Thousand Dollars, and we agreed that one dollar will be
exchanged at the rate of N363, and when we calculated, it
amounted to N18,150,000. They then ask me to give them an
account number where they can transfer the money, and so I
gave them that of Diamond Bank because they opted for it.
They told me that they are going to transfer N18,150,000 into
the Diamond Bank account. They waited up to 3pm waiting
for the money to be transferred into my account. They later
told me that the money has been transferred into my account,
and so I called my manager to confirm. The manager told me
that he was on leave, but that I should call one Isa Isa to
confirm. I then called the Isa Isa who informed me that the
money has been transferred into my account. The money was
transferred from First Bank account. As a result of the
confirmation, I gave them the 50 thousand American Dollars
and N100,000.
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