documents given to him by the 2nd Defendant is a subject of theft
in which somebody had lodged a complaint.PW1 then testified
that at this point, the nominal complainant, Mrs. Sonia instructed
her solicitor to petition the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission. PW1 also stated that the cheque of N20,000,000.00
was cashed as they received an alert.
Finally PW1 testified that part of the documents attached to the
petition was an acknowledgment signed by the 1st, 2nd and 4th
Defendants that they gave him the landed title documents. The
petition and attached documents to the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission was admitted in evidence through PW1 as
exhibit 1.
PW2 Aliyu Mohammed Jungudu is the Head of Ad-Hoc Committee
for sale of FGN Houses in the FCT. PW2 testified that in 2013 the
EFCC wrote him a letter which his office received. The letter
requested for some confirmation from the Committee on some
names listed in the letter whether they are staff of PW2’s office.
PW2 testified that he confirmed that none of them is a staff of the
Committee. PW2 testified that he was shown some draft cheques
and asked whether they were received by the Committee and he
stated clearly that the draft cheques were never received by the
Committee.
Under cross-examination, PW2 stated that the letter from the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was addressed to the
Chairman of the Committee. He said he is the Chairman. He
identified the letter of invitation by the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission dated 3rd July, 2013 and same was admitted
in evidence as Exhibit 2. PW2 stated that as at the time Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission wrote Exhibit 2 he was the
head of the Committee. He stated that he is in a position to know
if the bank draft were presented to the Committee because he is
the Head of the Committee. He was given copies of the bank
drafts written in favour of the Committee but he wouldn’t know if
the bank drafts emanated from the Defendants because same
were shown to him by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission. He stated that the sale of Federal Government of
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