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which had a Cooperative Society of about 89 men and women.
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the chairman of the Cooperative called Erhuvwu Cooperative Society,
which collects money from members, the Defendant is the treasurer
and one Augustine Onoriode, now late was secretary. Money coltected
is handed
to the Defendant to take to the Bank and the
Defendant
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would show tellers to show he had paid the money into the bank at the
end of November of every year, they collected their money from the
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bank and distribute to each member what is due to
him/her.
Things
went well for many years up till November,2AL2 when the'7 csuld not
find the Defendant who had stopped coming to church. The
Cooperative delegated the secretary one member and himself to go to
the house of the Defendant where they met the Defendant absent but
met his wife at home. She informed them that the Defendant travelled
to Maduguri and would be back in December 2012. They went to the
bank and discovered the account of the Cooperative had only #35,000
(thirty five thousand naira) instead of #2,663,600 (two million, six
hundred and sixty three thousand naira) contributed by members.'
When the Defendant later returned the parishioner counsel of the
church calted a meeting to resolve the
matter. The Defendant
admitted the money was with him and undertook to repay th.e money
in three installments by posted dated cheques of Access Bank Plc. A
member of the church, who is a lawyer, drafted an agreement, Exhibit
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