Further, in Daboh & Anor v. The State (1977) LPELR-904(SC), the Supreme Court, per Udo Udoma, JSC held that: It may be stated that where persons are charged with criminal conspiracy, it is usually required that the conspiracy as laid in the charge be proved; and that the persons charged be also proved to have been engaged in it. On the other hand, as it is not always easy to prove the actual agreement, courts usually consider it sufficient if it be established by evidence the circumstances from which the court would consider it safe and reasonable to infer or presume the conspiracy. (Pp. 25-26, paras. F-A). See also: ODUNEYE V. THE STATE (2001) LPELR-2245(SC) Per EJIWUNMI,J.S.C.(P.36, paras.C-E); THE STATE V. SALAWU (2011) LPELR-8252(SC) Per MUHAMMAD, J.S.C.(Pp. 41-42, paras. C-G); OKASHETU v. STATE (2016) LPELR-40611(SC) Per OGUNBIYI, J.S.C. (Pp. 14-15, Paras. E-E); and BUSARI v. STATE (2015) LPELR-24279(SC) Per MUNTAKA-COOMASSIE, J.S.C. (Pp. 24-25, paras. F-A) In addition to the above confessional statements of the Defendant in Exhibits PW2A, PW3A and PW3B, the direct evidence of PW1, Dozie Ogbonna, the victim, which I had earlier reproduced above, had given a vivid account of what transpired between himself and the Defendant with the others now at large. From the foregoing therefore, I find that the Prosecution had established an agreement between the Defendant with the others now at large, whose names 29

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