Having being corroborated by the evidence of 1st Defendant as DW1
and confirmed by the oral evidence of the 2nd Defendant as DW2, this
court believed the evidence of PW4 and accepted it as the truth of what
happened on the date of the incident.
In the case of Oyeyemi V. State (2019) 34 WRN 75 at 91, the court
clarified the position of the law that in robbery cases, it is not a
requirement of the law that all the accused persons must be armed with
an offensive or dangerous weapon as it suffices if one is armed. The
court said:“The law is that it is not the requirement
of the law that all the accused persons
must be armed with dangerous weapon,
the offence is complete once an offensive
weapon is used by either of the accused
persons.”
- Bello V. State (2007) 10 WRN p 564.
- Osetola V. State (2012) 17 NWLR pt 1329 p 343.
- Adekoya V. State (2017) 18 WRN 1.
Furthermore, Exhibit ‘B’ which is a bond to produce Exhibit, shows
that a Vivo model handset white colour was released to one Masa’udu
Mohammed of Sama Road Gwiwa Area, Sokoto by the Exhibit
Keeper of Sokoto State CID who testified as PW1 in person of
Inspector Abubakar Ahmad on the 21/12/2018 which further
corroborated the evidence of PW4 that one Mas’ud was violently
dispossessed of his white Vivo handset during the robbery incident.
In view of all the foregoing pieces of evidence, I am in complete
agreement with the prosecution that the prosecution has proved all the
essential elements of the offence of robbery contrary to Section 298(b)
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