to return the N40,000,000.00 draft and that any time the
GWarimpa houses are ready, they can raise another draft. The 1st
Defendant later called the 2nd Defendant informing him that PW1
said Mr. Victor wanted a refund as the delay in the process was
too long. Before this time, the 3rd Defendant had informed the 2nd
Defendant that the 1st Defendant had given her a cheque of
N9,000,000.00 as processing fee. The 2nd Defendant testified that
he told PW1 to exercise patience and that he has a land at
Asokoro which he can give them as collateral pending the time he
got the processing fee. He testified that he did give PW1 the title
documents of his Asokoro land subject to verification by Mr.
Victor at Abuja Geographic Information System. He was told by
PW1 to take the 1st Defendant and her husband to the said
property. The 2nd Defendant did so.
The 2nd Defendant in his testimony further stated that the
nominal complainant called sometime later to inform him that she
went for verification at Abuja Geographic Information System but
the title documents were withheld because they were stolen. The
2nd Defendant testified that he went to AGIS to confirm this and
he was told that one elderly Igbo man reported the case. The 2nd
Defendant was asked to write a letter of complaint to the Director
of Abuja Geographic Information System which he did. Exhibit 13
is the letter of complaint by the 2nd Defendant. The 2nd Defendant
testified that he wrote a second letter of complaint to Director
Lands, AGIS which said letter was admitted in evidence as exhibit
14. He said he bought the land from one Alhaji Ibrahim Musa
Katsina and Power of Attorney was executed in respect thereof.
Exhibits 15,16,16A 17,17A and 17 C were admitted in evidence
as the title documents relating to the 2nd Defendant’s land. He
testified that he also deposed to an affidavit and filed at Abuja
Geographic Information System after which Abuja Geographic
Information System released his title document. He said he never
met or knew the 1st Defendant before this transaction. As for the
3rd Defendant, he said he used to see her at the lands registry.
He said he is an agent and has been participating in a lot of
biddings which he has been winning for people. The last bidding
was in 2008. He said he won his personal house and also won for
other people although not all transactions are successful. As an
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