minutes on the petition on the letter headed paper of Muslim &
Christian
Youths
Integration
for
Good
Leadership,
the
1st
Defendant in exhibits 6 and 6(a) confessed to making the
minutes and addressed to ACP to investigate and report back to
him personally. Certainly by the evidence of PW1, PW2 and the
confessional statement of the Defendants i.e. exhibits 6, 6 (a), 7
and 7(a), the Defendants personated themselves or hold out
themselves as officers of the Independent Corrupt Practices and
Other
Related
Offences
Commission
(ICPC)
in
which
the
Defendants are not servants of the Commission neither did the
Defendants hold the office of Honourable Commissioner or officer
of the Commission respectively. Thus, by the evidence of PWs 1,
2, Exhibit 3 and its contents and the confessional statements of
the Defendants, the action of the Defendants was false and
indeed knew that they are not public servants of the Commission.
And the final ingredients for the offence of personating a public
servant or holding out as a public servant is when assuming the
character, did or attempted to do something under the colour of
his assumed office. In the instant case, by exhibit 3 and the
minutes on the petition by the 1st Defendant as confessed by him
in exhibits 6 and 6(a), and the presentation of exhibit 3 to PW1
by the 2nd Defendant and one Solomon Adakwu (now at large),
the assumption is that PW1 and the former Minister of FCT,
Senator Bala Mohammed are under investigation of wilful
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