“ ........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 10

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