to enable her effect change of name. He maintained that he visited Mrs.
Agboga at home as she was not forthcoming with the documents after
two weeks as promised, whereupon she pleaded with him to exercise
some patience; and that it was not until six (6) months later that Mrs.
Agboga brought the title documents bearing Jodeb & Ted Nig. Ltd for
the two plots of land and he proceeded to engage someone to
undertake recertification at AGIS towards the end of 2011. His further
testimony is that he met another parent called Mr. Segun who
introduced him to Barrister (Mrs). Mladi who charged him N500,000.00
to regularise/formalize his title documents, but she called a few days
later to inform him that his documents were fake and not genuine; that
he then called Mrs. Agboga who met with one Barr. Mladi and promised
to replace the two plots of land; that he insisted on seeing Mrs.
Agboga’s boss but much to his disappointment, he was asked to see
one Mr. Sanni; that he subsequently met with one Yahaya Onipe who
told him that the problem might be that no cartography had been done
and he paid him N780,000.00 to do the charting, but it turned to be
another fraud; and that when he became convinced that the transaction
was not genuine in the sense that the documents he was given by Mrs.
Agboga were fake, he wrote a petition on 4/9/12 to Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and attached records of the
payments he had made to Mrs. Agboga, Mr. Olipe, etc.; and that the
EFCC responded swiftly by inviting him and he made a statement. The
petition dated 4/9/2013 tendered was admitted in evidence and
collectively marked as Exhibit P1; whilst the extra-judicial statement
made by PW1 on 18/9/12 was marked Exhibit P2.
Cross-examined by Nuhu Usman, Esq. of counsel for the accused person,
PW1 confirmed that he had never met the accused person; that the
accused did not receive any money directly from him under the pretext
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