(c) For rendering or attempting to render any service or disservice to someone with any department of the public service or with any public servant. And the ingredients for the offence of personating a public servant are thus: 1. That the accused personated a public servant or that he pretended to hold the post of a public servant 2. That he was not such a servant or did not hold the post pretended 3. That he acted falsely or that he knew that he did not hold the office in question 4. That he, when assuming the character did or attempted to do something under colour of his assumed office. PW1 Mrs. Adekunbi Olushola Ajudi is the principal witness in this case. She told the court that she live at FCDA owner occupier block 13 flat 2 Kubwa. She work with FCDA Secondary Education Board. She said, she was posted to Kubwa but formally she was at Jabi Government day secondary school she said she knows the accused as Yusuf. In 2003 she was given letter of allocation by FCDA in respect of their houses with her neigbours owner occupier houses. At that time there was no sale of Government houses. They moved in 2005, that was when Government Started selling houses. She realized that some of her neighbours were given letter of offer for the sale of FGN houses but she was not given the letter. She went to room 109 at Area 11 office of the sale of Government house. She asked them why she was not given a letter of offer. They told her that she will be given a letter. She went to their office without getting the letter. One day she saw Yusuf. He came and knocked at her house, he said he work with FCDA. He is working in room 109. She now gave him attention. He told her that if she needed her house she should give him N560,000.00. He said he has to give money to some people to facilitate her letter. She now believed him hence she went to room 109 without any result for over a year. She told him to give her time to source for the money. He came back one day to tell her that one Chinyere has bought her house and if she want the house she should give him the money to get her the letter of offer. 4

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