“ ........I told the lady that the Accused would
not see her for reasons that he was busy, she
insisted and requested that I should tell him that
her name is Hiradi, a worker from Gwagwalada. On
hearing that, the Accused said he was coming down
to see her and when he came, he asked the lady the
where about of the case file he was expecting. The
lady suggested that they should first get into the
sitting room which they did and then sat down. The
Accused sighted a man already sitting and then
asked the “..I thought you are the only one?, the
lady said I came with the man”. It’s obvious that
the statement “I came with the man as made by PW1,
shows positively that the Accused has been in the
picture of the fact that PW1 was negotiating for
the money so demanded. Indeed, the subsequent
discovering of the marked N50, 000.00K notes under
a sofa in the Accused’s sitting room and
considering how the Accused made frantic effort to
hide the said amount Constitute cogent facts and
circumstances that obviously explained a way by the
defence considering the totality of the evidence
led by defence. I am therefore to hold and in fact
hold the view that the evidence of PW1, PW2
especially that the evidence of PW3 the team leader
of the investigators as well as the PW5, the
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