request, I took the cheque leaf to the bank as he requested.
After I submitted the cheque, I left the bank but I did not go
back to Uwa, although I called him via phone call and
informed him that I have submitted the cheque leaf.
S.E. King Esq: When you submitted the cheque leaf to the bank were you
paid any cash?
DW1:
No, but when informed him that I have submitted the cheque
leaf, he said he will call me later. A week later, Uwa called
me and we met at one boutique at Enugu and gave me the
sum of N2.1 million and instructed me to give Nzube Okafor
N100,000 out of the N2.1 million. I know collected the N2.1
million from Uwa and left. I also went and met Nzube
Okafor and gave him the N100,000. After then I never met
with any one of them again till today. After about a year,
Nzube called me and informed me that his father was
arrested at the bank, but only told me that his father has
problem with the bank on cheque issue and that was in 2019.
He now asked me whether I have done anything with the
cheque, and I said no, that I only submitted the cheque as
requested. After that call, he never called me again until in
2020 and informed me that he has solved the cheque
problem. I later met with him many times. On the 24/2/2020
Nzube Okafor called me and we met at the beer parlour in
Enugu and we started our normal discussions before I was
arrested by the EFCC operatives.
S.E. King Esq: When you were arrested, where were you taken to?
DW1:
I was taken to the EFCC office in Enugu and they requested
me to make statement in respect of the $50,000 equivalent to
N18,250,000? I made a statement and I said that I don’t
know anything about it. I narrated to EFCC that I don’t
know anything about the $50,000. They then informed me
that the cheque I submitted to the bank was used in
defrauding people’s money. That was when I came to know
that the cheque was used to do the fraud. After 5 days, I was
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