letters of allocation were not forthcoming. PW1 testified that
based on the pressure mounted on the 1st Defendant, the 1st
Defendant brought the 2nd Defendant to PW1 and introduced him
as a member of Ad-Hoc Committee on sale of Federal
Government of Nigeria Houses. He testified that the 2nd
Defendant tried to comfort him on the veracity of the process and
to prove that it is an objective transaction. PW1 stated that the
2nd Defendant then offered and give him his landed
title
documents in Asokoro behind AIT. He stated that the 2nd
Defendant gave him the title documents in the presence of the 1st
and 4th Defendants. According to PW1, the 1st defendant told him
that the value of the property offered by the 2nd Defendant is
worth N40,000,000.00. PW1 then asked his driver to accompany
the 2nd Defendant to go and identify the land in Asokoro which
the 2nd Defendant did. PW1 testified that they held on to the title
documents of the land and when the letters of allocation were not
forth-coming, they requested for the N40,000,000.00 draft and
the cheque of N20,000,000.00.
He testified that the 1st Defendant brought back the
N40,000,000.00 bank draft telling them that the process of
allocation is still going on despite the request by PW1 for the
N40,000,000.00 bank draft be returned. PW1 also testified that
the 1st Defendant later came and told him that the letters of
allocation are almost ready with the Chief of Staff and that the
Chief of Staff requested for N6,000,000.00 and if it is made
available, the Minister will sign the allocation letters but PW1
refused to give out the money.
PW1 testified further that at this point he instructed their client to
go to Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) to verify the
authencity of the landed titled documents given to them by the
2nd Defendant.
PW1 testified that he then gave his boss wife Mrs. Sonia the title
documents to go to Abuja Geographic Information System for
verification. According to PW1, at Abuja Geographic Information
System his boss wife called him that she was about being
arrested and asked him to come over quickly at Abuja Geographic
Information system. PW1 testifies that at Abuja Geographic
Information system he was informed that the land title
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