Amasi Okon her title documents. The defendant who said in her statement that she sold her land to Lead British International School in a transaction different from that she had with Amasi Okon, denied knowing the school and having any transaction with her in her oral testimony before the Court. Her evidence before this Court that she did not know Dyna Ladejj Investment Ltd. or British International School is an afterthought and an attempt to resile from her statement which she made voluntarily and I so hold. The law is settled that the Court can convict on a retracted confessional statement as long as it is satisfied of the truth of the statement. In BATURE VS. THE STATE (1994) 1 NWLR Pt. 320 Pg. 267, Onu JSC held as follows: Indeed, as this court held recently in the case of EGHOGHONOME VS. THE STATE (1993) 7 NWLR (Pt.306) 383, where an extra-judicial confession has been proved to have been made voluntarily and it is positive and unequivocal and amounts to an admission of guilt, as in the instant case, it will suffice to ground a finding of guilt regardless of the fact that the maker resiled therefrom or retracted it altogether at the trial, since such a u-turn does not necessarily make the confession inadmissible.” The statement of the defendant has been proved to be one that was voluntarily made and I so hold. The defendant cannot therefore resile from its contents and I so hold. The defendant’s oral testimony is that Okon Amasi conducted a search when he received Appendix B. Her counsel also made heavy weather of the failure of the prosecution to produce the search report. My considered view is that failure to produce the search report would not make Appendix B a genuine document and I so hold. The fact that Okon Amasi did not discover the fraud in the document does not make it any 24

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