The PW4,
Mr. Sanni Audu stated that the accused person who is his
friend and business partner brought two allocation papers to him for
sale and he agreed to help him to sell them; that he took the
documents from him and gave to Madam Elizabeth who eventually got
a buyer; that the documents were with Madam Elizabeth and the buyer
for over three (3) months before they confirmed the land and an
agreement was reached on the purchase price; that he dealt with
Madam Elizabeth who paid him the purchase price of N3.4m in
installments; that he gave the accused person N2.5m for the 5-hectares
and N300,000 for the 1-hectare as they had agreed, and the accused
person paid him N200,000.00 and N30,000 respectively as agency fee.
The PW4 stated further that Madam Elizabeth called him one fateful day
to complain that there was an encroachment on the plots of land and
he accompanied her to AMAC to confirm the genuineness of the
allocation letters held by the lady who encroached on the land but she
did not show up; that it was on that day that he met the buyer, Mr.
Daniel (PW1) and that he then asked Mr. Daniel to go ahead to develop
the land since he has already processed his documents; that some weeks
later he got a call from Madam Elizabeth who told him that she was
detained by EFCC; that the accused person and himself went to EFCC
and insisted that they did not sell fake land documents to anyone and
that he got the land documents from the accused person; that he wrote
a statement in his own handwriting and was detained; that his aunt,
Victoria Aherovoh took him on bail the following day; and that they
were asked to refund the money based on the allegation that they sold
fake allocation papers.
Under cross-examination by Nuhu Usman, Esq. of counsel for the
accused person, the PW4 stated that he has known the accused for
about 6 years. He confirmed his earlier statement that the land
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