I have carefully and insightfully examined Exhibits P6A and P6B once
and again.
In Exhibit P6A dated 17/10/12, the accused person merely
recounted how he gave land documents relating to Plots CP 1492 and
MF 719D, Lugbe 1 Extension Layout, Abuja which he got from one
Surveyor Akinyemi to Sani Audu (PW4) to sell after he had verified their
authenticity at AMAC; that the accused was given a total sum of N2.8m
for the two plots of land, out of which sum he paid N230,000 to PW4 as
agency fee; and that he was meeting Mrs. Elizabeth Agboga (PW2) for
the first time. Exhibit P6A is clearly not a confessional statement by any
description. But in Exhibit P6B dated 29/10/12, the accused wrote that:
"In addition to my earlier statement, I promise that on the 7th
day of November 2012, I shall bring [to] the EFCC Office the
sum of N6.2 million naira (sic) being the payment of the case
of OBT and Criminal Breach of Trust established against me
for sale of fake land document I sold (sic) to one Deacon
Daniel Okhionkpomuwo."
On its face, Exhibit P6B is an undertaking by the accused person to pay
N6.2m to PW1 which subsumes an admission that a "case of OBT and
Criminal Breach of Trust" has been established against him "for sale of
fake land document".
The snag with Exhibit P6B however is that its
content is verbatim ad literatim with the content of Exhibits P3C and P5B
made by Mrs. Elizabeth Agboga (PW2) and Sanni Audu (PW4) on the
same 29/10/12, and the accused person as well as PW2 and PW4 were
unanimous in their testimony that the Investigating Officer, Mrs. Janet
Arua (PW3) asked them to copy what she had written out on a sheet of
paper and because she told them pointedly that they would not be
released unless they wrote the second statement, they had no choice
but to do so.
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I must state here that I believe and accept the above