evidence of insanity tendered by an accused person himself is
suspect and is not usually taken seriously.”
It is the view of this court that by tendering exhibit C1 by the
defendant which is a report from Federal Neuro Psychiatric hospital
Kware obtained in the year 2021 while it is in evidence that the
defendant was taken to Kware twice in the year 2014 cannot be of
any moment in proving the defence of insanity on the part of the
defendant. it has been held in a number of judicial decisions that
the defence can only avail the defendant if he can show that he was
insane at the time he committed the offence. On this see the case of
EJINIMA v STATE (1991) LPELR 1067 SC. In the instant case the
offence was said to have been committed in the year 2020 and the
defendant was said to have been taken to Kware in the year 2014 a
period of almost 6 years. We don’t have the history of the state of
mind of the defendant in all those years as DW1 who said he is a
senior brother to the defendant stated that he don’t even know the
whereabout of the defendant at the time he committed the alledged
offence until when he got information that the defendant is at the
Sokoto Correctional Centre for committing the alledged offence. This
clearly shows that the witness DW1 could not state anything about
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