be subjected to cross examination. Hence therefore, by the evidence adduced by the prosecution witnesses and the exhibits before the Court, the prosecution has presented some credible evidence against the 1st Defendant upon which the six count amended charge will proceed and requires some explanations from the 1st Defendant. Thus, therefore, the no case submission made on behalf of the 1st Defendant fails and it is accordingly dismissed. As I said earlier, on the 15th February, 2017 the 3rd Defendant testified as DW1 while the 2nd Defendant testified on 18th January, 2018 as DW2. The 1st Defendant on the otherhand by the proceedings of 9th March, 2016, by the provision of section 352(4) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, the 1st Defendant having jumped bail and he is on the run despite affording him several opportunities to appear and enter his defence, the 1st Defendant failed, neglected or refused to enter his defence and the case therefore proceeded in the absence of the 1st Defendant. Having said the above, the brief facts and evidence of the prosecution’s case against the Defendants is that by exhibit 4, the petition to the commission, it alleged that the Defendants received the sum of N8,500,000.00 under the pretence to sell plots of land to PW1 as conveyed by exhibits 1,2 and 6. And by the testimony of PW2, a staff of Federal Capital Development Authority in the Zonal Planning office of Abuja Municipal Area Council stated that when they received a letter of investigation activites from Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, in respect of Plots ED3 and ED4, they carried out verification and they discovered that the Plots were not allocated and they conveyed their findings vide exhibit 5 to the commission that the allocations in exhibits 1 and 2 are not genuine. Similarly, by the testimony of PW3 to the effect that after several months after the sale of the Plots, PW1 called on PW3 that the purported plots ED3 and ED4 does not exist. According to PW3, he contacted the 2nd and 3rd Defendants on 13