From the earlier quoted portion of the defendant’s extrajudicial statement admitted in evidence and marked as Exhibit A1, it is very clear that there was robbery incident that took place along Birnin Kebbi road, robbers who included the defendant, were not armed with any dangerous weapons. It was also apparent that during the robbery incident, PW1 (Faruk Liman Ambursa) was dispossessed of his motorcycle Bajaj. The defendant’s statement was corroborated by the evidence of PW1 under cross examination who testified to the fact that at the CID Office, Sokoto, the defendant in his presence, confessed to the Police about his participation in the robbery and also informed the Police that he had already sold the motorcycle at Kasuwar Daji in Zamfara State. PW2 Mudassir Abdullahi also testified in corroboration to the confession of the defendant and the evidence of PW1, that the defendant while at CID his presence, confess his participation in the commission of the robbery against their victim (PW1). It was also his evidence that he observed that PW1’s face had swollen as well as had wounds on his hands. The foregoing pieces of evidence of PW1 and PW2 having corroborated the confessional statement of the defendant making the confession consistent with the fact of case showing that the defendant had the opportunity to commit the offence, defendant’s retraction of the confessional statement during his testimony as DW1, is inconsequential and is hereby discountenanced. - State V. Yahaya (2019) 38 WRN 14. - Abdullahi V. State (2019) 16 WRN 145. Page 11 of 14