The PW1 was deceived by the 1st Defendant. The Defendants are not staffs of NSCDC neither do they have capacity to employ PW1 but deceived him to deliver the sum of money (N10,000) to him. From the evidence before me, the money received by 1st Defendant was received for and on behalf of the 2nd Defendant. In my view Counts I & II are also proved beyond reasonable doubt and I so hold. The 3rd Count is cheating by personation. The evidence is that the 2nd Defendant pretended to the PW1 as the Personal Assistant to the New Commandant of the NSCDC. No such documents i.e ID were recovered from him. The Exhibit B does not also contain such evidence. The evidence of PW1 to the effect that the 2nd Defendant presented himself to him as the PA to the Commandant General of NSCDC was not corroborated. The PW2, PW3 and PW4 are all Officers whose evidence is essentially hearsay. In 34

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