Defendant called him on phone, introduced himself as Honourable
member of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC)
and on that assumed character informed PW1 that he has a case
against him at the commission and that he will send two of his
boys with the file exhibit 3 to come and show him. Learned
prosecuting
Counsel
submitted
further
that
based
on
the
conversation on phone between PW1, Ibrahim Mohammed Bomai
and the 1st Defendant, the 1st Defendant actually sent the 2nd
Defendant and one Solomon Adakwu (now at large) to the office
of PW1, the Director Treasury and the 2nd Defendant and
Solomon Adukwu (now at large) also actually took the case file,
exhibit 3 to PW1, which case file, exhibit 3 was false and untrue.
The learned prosecution also stated that neither exhibit 3 nor its
presenters i.e the Defendants were from the Independent Corrupt
Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, (ICPC). He
submitted that when exhibit 3 was presented to PW1, it was in
the ordinary course of his official duties as Director, Treasury
FCT. Further, the learned prosecution submitted that PW1 equally
explained to the alleged boys of the 1st Defendant how the funds
as per the content of exhibit 3 came to the FCT, which according
to the prosecution, shows that the information itself as contained
in exhibit 3 was false because no funds were misappropriated as
claimed by the Defendants in exhibit 3.
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