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According to PW1, the Police Officers invited Defendant's father, who
claimed that she was not around, but, promised to bring her to the police station,
which we eventually did. PW1 states that it was at the police station that the
Accounts reconciliation was inevitably done.
PW1 stated that before the said reconciliation, she had written out several
phones which were missing in the shop, and, then referred to her statement to
the police, which she said carefully itemized the said missing phones, with the
value stated to be the sum of N2,560,000=.
PW1 then stated that on the card section, she discovered that the sum of
N1,575,645= was missing from the money remitted to herfrom the sales rep in
charge of that section. PW1 stated that she beckoned on the sales rep of that
particular department to give a detailed account, which she did, and, this was
documented at the police station.
According to PW1, the sum total from the general and phone accessories
amounted to over the sum of four million naira. PW1 stated that before the
second reconciliation could be concluded, the Defendant asked for more time,
and, eventually the second reconciliation were concluded after two weeks.
PW1 stated that her own reconciliation is what she had given to this court,
while, the Defendant, from her own reconciliation could not account for over the
sum of N1,553,000.
According to PW1, when the DPO, Ebrumede requested that the
defendant should produce the missing money which she had accepted the
Defendant who was accompanied by her father, two uncles and theie landlord
started to plead with her for time to look for the said sum of monies for which she
had accepted.
PW1 told this court that she then told them that that was not the exact sum
of money involved. PW1 then stated that the Defendant then agreed to pay the
sum of N400,000 out of the money which she had agreed to pay. PW1 then
stated that she then accepted the sum of N400,000= and then requested for her
balance" According to PW1, they pleaded for another two weeks to look for the
balance, to which she, PW1 agreed.
After two weeks, they requested for an extension according to PW1, and,
for which she gave, until, she eventually reviewed court processes from the High
Court, Effurun, touching in infringement of the Defendant's fundamental rights.
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