Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act No.14
of 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.
The 1st accused, Dogo Williams pleaded not guilty to the six count
charge.
The prosecutor called five witnesses to establish the case against
the accused person, while the accused person gave evidence for
his own defence.
Various documents were tendered by the
prosecution witnesses; the 1st person to give evidence is Edeh
Ifeanyi PW1. He told the court that the accused approached him
that No. B31 Shop 4 Wuse Market was vacant and that the
landlord of the said shop is one Odegba, on the basis of the
presentation by the accused, he paid the sum of N740,000.00
(Seven Hundred and Fourty Thousand Naira) only to the accused
which represent two years rent. The N700,000.00 is for the two
years rent while N40,000.00 represented agency fee for the
accused person; the receipt of N740,000.00 was given to the
witness by the accused person, same was admitted in evidence
as Exhibit A. PW1 came to realize later that the accused person
faked Odegba as the landlord; the said Odegba does not exist.
The accused did not refund the money paid by PW1 neither was
the witness given a shop, the accused was reported to the Police
where the made an undertaking dated 4/10/2007 to pay back
the N740,000.00 to the witness; the written undertaking was
admitted in evidence as Exhibit B.
PW2 one Nwachukwu, a trader in Wuse Market Abuja, was looking
for Half Shop. The accused approached PW2 and told him that
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