‘Jammare so you are the one who want to kill me’ until she died.” PW2 also testified as follows:“I personally informed one Aliyu a Policeman at the Area Command that the deceased kept mentioning Jammare’s name…After this the police arrested the Defendant and together with me, the police went to Jammare’s house at Gidan Busal to conduct a search, and in the process, a gun was recovered.” The Defendant in his statement dated 21/02/2019 marked as Exhibit ‘A’ and ‘A1’ respectively, confirmed the evidence of PW2 with regard to the search conducted in his house and the recovery of a locally made revolver pistol with 13 live ammunitions which he said he bought from one Buzu a blacksmith. From the evidence as led by the prosecution and presented before this court, it appears to me that the only evidence that appeared to link the Defendant with the participation in the armed robbery incident with which the Defendant is charged, is the dying declaration of one late Salamatu Umar, the wife of PW1 who was shot during the robbery incident on the stomach and subsequently died. The Supreme Court in the case of Ezekwe V. State (2018) 14 NWLR pt 1639 p 209 at 226, described dying declaration as follows:“It is a declaration of someone at the point of death, whose hope of life is gone when the motive for falsehood is no longer there and the mind is compelled by the most powerful consideration of the impending unknown to speak the truth.” Page 13 of 21