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 23

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