personates any other person holding such office and in such assumed character does or attempts to do any act under colour of such office, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with fine or with both”. Section 8(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act states: “A person who conspires with aids, abets or counsel’s any other person to commit an offence or...” The first count is that the Defendant pretended to be an Operative of the EFCC and demanded One Million Naira from PW2 DR PRECIOUS GBENEOL a former Hon. Secretary Health and Human Service Secretariat as bribe to cover or do away with a Petition against her. The evidence of PW2, the Nominal Complainant is that she got a text on her phone saying that the person calling her is Eagle Eye and that there are 6 to 8 Petitions transferred to EFCC under his care. That he has verified the Petitions and that if she wants the case closed, she should pay N1 Million to his Account. He supplied the Account Number and the Name of the Defendant as the Account Name. She agreed under cross-examination that she still has the phone to which the text message was sent. That she does not have the text. She confirmed she had not seen the Defendant until that day in Court. That EFCC showed her the picture of the Defendant with name attached and she said she had not seen him before. From the evidence above, the person who sent the purported text to PW2 introduced himself as eagle eye. He purportedly has 6 to 8 Petitions written against PW2 the Nominal Complainant to the EFCC under his custody. The evidence of PW1 is a rehearsal of Exhibit A the PW2’s Petition except that 9