also into property business and resides in Abuja, for about 7 years, that
sometime in February 2010, Surveyor Akinyemi called him one evening
and asked him to meet him in the office the following morning at
Nkeugwu Plaza in Area 3, Abuja by Old Secretariat; that he went there
the following morning and he met the accused person there; that
Surveyor Akinyemi then brought out land documents from his drawer
and the documents were letters of offer in respect of plots of land at
Lugbe 1 Extension Layout, Airport Road, Abuja; that Surveyor Akinyemi
gave him two copies and also gave the accused two copies of the same
land documents and the documents were for 2 separate plots of land;
that Surveyor Akinyemi asked both the accused and himself to go and
market the plots of land; that one plot was 5 hectares at N2million
whilst the one of 1 hectare was to be sold for N200,000.00 and that if
they sell for more, they were to keep the excess.
He confirmed that the names on the Letters of Offer were Larties Nig.
Ltd (5 hectares) and Addas Nig. Ltd (1 hectare). He also identified the
two offer letters attached to Exhibit P1 and stated that he was not able
to sell the plots of land, because when he eventually got buyers and
went to Surveyor Akinyemi, he was told that the accused had already
found buyers and so he left.
Under cross-examination by Mrs. Jamila Shata of counsel for the
Prosecution, the DW2 maintained that he had known the accused for 6
years, the very day he and the accused met at Surveyor Akinyemi’s office
was not their first meeting. He stated that when he took the documents
from Surveyor Akinyemi, he conducted a search before putting it on the
market. On whether he has anything to prove that he conducted a
search, he said that he did a window search and the result was “okay”
and that he will be surprised to learn that the window search was not
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