(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.
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