marked as Exhibit ‘A’ and Exhibit ‘A1’ which are the Hausa and English translated version respectively. After the close of the prosecution’s case, the defence called 1 witness who happened to be the defendant himself, and upon the close of the defence case, the matter was thereafter adjourned for adoption of counsel’s respective filed written address. During the adoption of parties’ respective written addresses, the prosecution urged this court to convict the defendant as charged, while the defence counsel urge this court to acquit and discharge the defendant. In ty producedheir respective written addresses, both the prosecution and the defence counsel, only formulated one (1) issue for determination. For the purpose of this judgment, this court having hybrid the two (2) issues, formulated one (1) issue for determination, and the issue so formulated, is so comprehensive as to take care of all the issues formulated by parties and is hereby produced below as follows:“Whether considering the totality of the evidence led before this Honourable Court the prosecution has proved its case beyond reasonable doubt against the defendant in respect of the offences with which the defendant was arraigned.” The case of the prosecution against the defendant, is as presented by the evidence of the prosecution witnesses and the exhibits tendered and admitted in evidence before this court. Page 2 of 14

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