date. His wife has always informed me that he is at Lassa, his Village. Then paragraph 4 of exhibit 1 reads: “In April, 2009 I went to Abuja Geographic Information System (AGIS) and found out the true position of things as follows: (a) The revalidated Right of Occupancy has the name of Mr. Lamar Abba Gana Gadzama while the photograph on same is that of Markus K. Gadzama. (b) Mr. Markus has fraudulently prepared a Deed of Assignment and Power of Attorney in the name of Lamar Abba Gana but had fraudulently appended his signature on it; (c) Mr. Gadzama arranged without my knowledge and sold the land to one Mr. Okike Godwin Uchechukwu; (d) Mr. Okike Godwin Uchechukwu paid the sum of N2,360,000.00 at Abuja Geographic Information System (AGIS) to collect the revalidated certificate. Thus, pursuant to exhibit 1, PW1, Abdullahi Muhammadu Maiturare, a Senior Detective Officer with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) with his team was detailed to investigate the complaint as contained in exhibit 1. PW1 testified that when the Defendant reported to the commission based on exhibit 1, the Defendant made voluntary statements under the word of caution after been shown the complaint, exhibit 1. The statements of the Defendant were admitted in evidence after trial within trial as exhibits 6, 6(a) and 6(b). PW1 further obtained the statements of the nominal complainant, PW5 and that of his witnesses, who testified as PWs 2 and 7 while the statements of one Okike Godwin Uchechukwu (now deceased) and that of Lamar Abba Gana were received in evidence as exhibits 5 and 9 respectively. 18

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