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the Defendant who admitted taking the money, signed Exhibit "A- and
made some repayment.
PW3 Augustine Obiajulu Okwor is the staff of the E.F.C.C
assigned to investigate the petition, Exhibit
"B' written
aga'rnst the
Defendant. He said PWL adopted the petition of the Erhuvwu
cooperative society of the St. James Anglican church,
warri.
The
Defendant was arrested and brought to a conducive office where he
saw, read and confirmed the truth of the petition, Exhibit "B" and
wrote
a
total of six statements.
As slated already after the trial within trial occasioned by
the
objection of defence counsel, PW2 never returned to conclude his
evidence.
Dqfenge
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Defendant Mr Godwin Oriri-Oghi denied the charges and told the
court he is the treasurer of Erhuvwu Cooperative Society, he receives
rnonies collected from members from three persons, Augustine
Onorode, Evans Eghwadana and Rose he does not collect money from
members directly and he banks the monies he received. on 5-12-,
2oL2, he travelled to Maiduguri and returned on zo-L2-2oLZ only to
hear from his wife that PW1 and one other came looking for him and
that they collected all the books of account and pass book relating to
the account of the Cooperative and all the records kept by him of the
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