Individually, the prosecution witnesses were
subjected to cross-examination by the defence and reexamination thereafter, the defence opened its
defence and for which there witnesses gave evidence.
DW1 is one Kunle Kabir who gave evidence for the
defence on oath. He testified that he was the one
that the PW1 and PW2 met when they got to the Accused
house and that when he told the accused person that
he had visitors, the accused declined to see them on
the ground that he was not expecting any visitor(s)
on that day but later decided to see them when he
told him that it was his clerk. He further told the
court that he witnessed the discussion between the
accused person and the PW2 and that no money was
received by the accused person from the PW2.
Thereafter is DW2, a staff in the court of the
Accused who also gave evidence on oath to the effect
that the accused person sat in court on the
18/09/2003 being Friday but ordered her to adjourn
all the cases for that day due to absence of the
parties and their counsel. She further stated that
the Accused was around the court the following day to
look for the files of some cases he had handled but
had no access to the court but left instructions for
her to send those files to his house whenever she has
access to the court. DW3 and the last witness to the
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