At the close of evidence of the case of the prosecution the 1st and 2nd Defendants testified as DWs 1 and 2 respectively. The defence also called two additional witnesses i.e. Mohammed Salihu and Jummai Salihu both of them son and wife of the 1st Defendant as DWs 3 and 4 respectively. Exhibit 8, a letter of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Water Resources was admitted in evidence through PW3, Linus Gubi on behalf of the defence. The brief testimony of DW1 is that the operatives of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) came to his house in Zaria on the 23rd August, 2015 and showed him a search warrant and an arrest warrant. According to Dw1, his house was searched by the operative led by PW2 but nothing was found. DW1 testified that he then signed the search warrant that nothing was found in his house. DW1 testified that PW2 and his men then arrested him and took him to Abuja. In Abuja, according to DW1, PW2 confronted him with some documents and he asked him whether he knows anything about them? DW1 answered that he does not know anything about the documents. According to DW1 that PW2 also asked him whether he phoned one Ibrahim Bomai and he told him “no” Dw1 testified that PW2 then gave him a plain sheet of papers and asked him to write his biography and 10