The Nominal Complainant, Effiong Nsungusi, PW4 is the Proprietor of Fine Trust Academy. He testified that he knows the 1st and 2nd Defendants. He specifically testified that he knows the 1st Defendant as a Land Officer in Abuja Municipal Area Council while the 2nd Defendant as Zonal Manager. PW4 then testified that sometimes in 1997, he obtained a land application on which he completed for allocation of land in favour of Fine Trust Academy. PW4 testified that he was allocated Plot SSI Jikwoyi and he paid all the necessary fees and he was issued with title deed plan of Plot SS1 Jikwoyi Extension III. According to PW4 he took possession of the land and indeed was farming on the land and had taken possession. He testified that sometimes in 2005 Mr. Patrick Pillah, the 1st Defendant met him in his school and said to him that he was informed that he was in possession of title documents of SS1 and PW4 said ‘yes’. According to PW4 that the 1st Defendant told him that the land belongs to him and that he has all the title documents. PW4 testified that the 1st Defendant requested to see PW4’s title documents and the 1st Defendant showed to him the photocopies of his own title documents over the land. PW4 testified that he told the 1st Defendant that he will not show him his title documents. PW4 testified further that the 1st Defendant told him that in his own interest he should return the land papers and he should not go to that land again. PW4 testified that after about few weeks he was invited by the Divisional Police Officer Jikwoyi Police Station and PW4 reported at the Station. According to PW4, the Police told him that he had trespassed into somebody’s land and PW4 told the Police it was not true. PW4 testified that the Investigation Police Officer asked him whether he has title documents of the land and PW4 answered ‘yes’. PW4 then produced his title documents and the Police then told him that they cannot resolve this issue as both of them have title documents and advised them to go to the place that issued them with the title documents. PW4 testified that sometimes in 2008, the 1st Defendant went to the land with some people and dug a foundation round the land. PW4 testified that he wrote a letter of complaint to Abuja Municipal Area Council for illegal encroachment of the land. According to PW4, Abuja Municipal Area Council investigated the matter in 2008 and asked the 1st 6

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