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 33