being stolen, the accused person induced the four witnesses to part with total sum of N1,382,500.00 to the accused which the accused refused to refund to the four witnesses. Accused in one of his confessional statement dated 3rd Day of July 2007 stated as follows: “I Dogo Williams have undertaken before the EFCC’s Office FCT Unit Abuja. That I will refund the sum of N1,382,500.00 (One Million, Three Hundred and Eighty Two Thousand, Five Hundred Naira) only before this office on or 11th Day of December 2007 unfailingly”. (Sgd) 3/17/2007 The accused never kept to his promise, no money was paid back to the victims of the fraud. The accused denied in his statement on oath that he collected money from the four witnesses, he stated that the victims of the fraud paid directly to the landlord and that what he benefitted was agency fees, but in his confessional statement admitted before this court as Exhibit G1, G2 and G3 accused accepted collecting various amounts from the prosecution witnesses, confessional statement is sufficient to ground conviction. See F.R.N. v IWEKA (2013) 3 NWLR (Pt 1341) P. 285 where the court held as follows: “In appropriate cases, an accused person can be properly convicted on his or her confessional statement alone. Although it is always desirable to have some evidence 12