N20,000,000 received from the nominal complainant as the draft
cheques were not in their names.
Under cross –examination by the defence Counsel, PW3 stated
that he is abreast of the facts of this case. He denied that the
nominal complainant never issued a cheque because the cheques
issued were in the name of her husband.PW3 however said that
he did not have interaction with Victor Ben, the husband of the
nominal complainant except with his personal assistant (PW1).
PW3 is not aware of any application signed by Victor Ben, the
husband of the nominal complainant to Ad-Hoc Committee on
sale of
Federal Government Houses. He said the nominal
Complainant indicated interest in buying the property and she
informed her husband. He said she also inspected the property
herself. He said it was the nominal Complainant that had direct
contact with the Defendant. What the personal assistant to the
husband of the nominal Complainant told PW3 were instructions
from the husband of the nominal complainant that he should
process and raise draft cheques. The personal Assistant to Victor
Ben was not the one that signed the draft cheque and PW3 would
not know if Mr. Victor Ben applied to the Ad-Hoc Committee for
sale of Federal Government Houses. He never interviewed Victor
Ben and that is why he cannot know whether he has applied to
Ad- Hoc Committee. He stated that the 1st Defendant had in her
statement said that the 2nd Defendant is a staff of Ad-Hoc
Committee but the 2nd Defendant had in his statement denied
this. PW3 is not aware that the 2nd Defendant had in his
statement denied this. PW3 is not aware that the 2nd Defendant
processed Houses of Federal Government which succeeded nor is
he aware that the nominal complainant had said in her statement
that her husband paid N100,000.00 each for the two application
form.
PW3 denied that the nominal complainant knew that the 1st
Defendant was not a staff of the Ad-Hoc Committee right from
the beginning. He said there was no property to facilitate in this
case. He stated that he was not given a list of houses that were
available for sale by the Federal Government but the secretary of
the committee told him that the houses which the Defendants
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