In addition to the above oral testimonies of the three witnesses of the Prosecution, Exhibits PW2A, PW3A, PW3B, PW3C and PW3D were tendered as documentary evidence in proof of the Prosecution’s case. It is trite law that where there are oral and documentary evidence, the documentary evidence should be used as a hangar to test the veracity of the oral evidence. See: EGHAREVBA v OSAGIE (2009) LPELR-1044(SC), per Ogbuagu, JSC at pages 34 – 35, paras. E – A; KIMDEY & ORS. v MILITARY GOV. OF GONGOLA STATE & ORS. (1988) LPELR-1692(SC), per Nnaemeka Agu, JSC at page 54, paras. A – B; and CAMEROON AIRLINES v OTUTUIZU (2011) LPELR-827(SC), per Rhodes-Vivour, JSC at page 23, paras. A – D. Exhibits PW2A, PW3A and PW3B are confessional statements made by the Defendant at DSS and at EFCC. It is trite that the burden of establishing the voluntariness of a confessional statement In exhibit PW2A, the Defendant’s statement made at the DSS, FCT Command on the 2nd of December, 2016, the Defendant stated as follows: I Bala Tangalu I am a member of 419 group known as one (1) chance operating within Abuja metropolis with our base at Dape Village. On the 4th of July, 2016 I and other members of the said group went out in a car picking unsuspecting passengers. On that fateful day inside the vehicle one of us claimed that he stole his master’s money but that the money was charmed, that if they are interested in the money that they could all go to a native doctor to remove the charm, so they can share the money within themselves. They drove to our shrine located at Dape along Karimu – 22

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