and she was interviewed at the team’s office, she was cautioned
and volunteered three statements under words of caution which
were admitted at the trial of this case as Exhibits 10, 10A and
10B. PW3 said a letter of investigationwas written to the Ad-Hoc
Committee for Sale of Federal Government Houses which was
responded to by one AlhajiJ Ungudu (PW2). According to PW2
after PW2 was interviewed and he volunteered a statement in
which he stated that the 1st, 2nd and 3rdDefendants were never
members of the Ad-hoc Committee on the Sale of Federal
Government Houses. That PW2 had also stated that the 1st, 2nd
and 3rd Defendants are not their agents. PW3 testified that the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission received a response
from the Ad-Hoc Committee on the Sale of Federal Government
Houses which was admitted in evidence as Exhibit 6. Then due to
the fact that the draft cheque issued by nominal complainant was
issued in favour of Option Solution Company, the EFCC wrote to
Corporate Affairs Commission and a response was received and
PW3’s team discovered that one Adekunle Aje (the 4th Defendant)
is the Managing Director of that company. Exhibit 4 was the
response of the Corporate Affairs Commission. PW3 testified that
the 4th Defendant came on the invitation of the ` and volunteered
his statement under words of caution. The 4th Defendant’s
statement to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was
admitted in evidence as Exhibit 11. PW3 stated in his evidence
that Option Solution Company has an account with UBA Plc and
the team wrote a letter of investigation to UBA Plc to which the
bank responded with the analysed statement of account. The
statement of account of the 5th Defendant is exhibit 5.
It is PW3’s further testimony that his team discovered after their
investigation that the sum of N20,000,000 entered into the
account of Options Solutions Company, the 5th Defendant. They
also discovered that the sum of N9,000,000 went in favour of the
3rdDefendant while N8,600,000.00 went in favour of the
1stDefendant. PW3 testified that the sum of N500,000 was
recovered from the 2ndDefendant. He discovered that the Zenith
Bank drafts of N10,000,000.00 each totaling N40,000,000 in
favour of Ad-hoc Committee was a trick just to benefit from the
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