minutes on the petition on the letter headed paper of Muslim & Christian Youths Integration for Good Leadership, the 1st Defendant in exhibits 6 and 6(a) confessed to making the minutes and addressed to ACP to investigate and report back to him personally. Certainly by the evidence of PW1, PW2 and the confessional statement of the Defendants i.e. exhibits 6, 6 (a), 7 and 7(a), the Defendants personated themselves or hold out themselves as officers of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in which the Defendants are not servants of the Commission neither did the Defendants hold the office of Honourable Commissioner or officer of the Commission respectively. Thus, by the evidence of PWs 1, 2, Exhibit 3 and its contents and the confessional statements of the Defendants, the action of the Defendants was false and indeed knew that they are not public servants of the Commission. And the final ingredients for the offence of personating a public servant or holding out as a public servant is when assuming the character, did or attempted to do something under the colour of his assumed office. In the instant case, by exhibit 3 and the minutes on the petition by the 1st Defendant as confessed by him in exhibits 6 and 6(a), and the presentation of exhibit 3 to PW1 by the 2nd Defendant and one Solomon Adakwu (now at large), the assumption is that PW1 and the former Minister of FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed are under investigation of wilful 41

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