"In the afternoon of the 6th day of March, 2013, a
seminarian made a deposit of money to the tune of
N719,360.00 at our bank. After a while, two commercial
motorcyclists with one passenger on each of them
stopped at the front ,of our office. The seminarian /; who
made the deposit was still in our office. Two mer:, c'ame
into our office while the money I collected from the
seminarian was still on the ground behind the counter.
They instructed us to lie down facing the ground and all of
us did : so. One of the robbers opened the door to the
counter and came in where I was lying down . He
collected all the money on the ground into the bacco bag
with which the seminarian brought the money. I was still
lying on the ground when people started coming in and it
was then that I stood up. The armed robbers stole a total
-sum of N728,530.00 from the money in my possession .
We went: to the Ogidi Police Station and lodged a report.
The D. P. 0. told us to exercise some patients as he had
gotten a .report that his men apprehended some people.
The D. P. 0 . asked me whether I have insert~d the
money inside our wrappers and I told him yes . Then he
said that the people apprehended were with some money.
And if the money is in our wrapper, then it is our money.
We waited until his men arrived with the people. :And it
happened that the money on them was in the wrappers of
Oluchukwu Micro Finance Bank. After that day, our
officials later went to the police station and the police men
gave them the money but the amount is not up to the
amount that was forcefully taken away. The money the
policemen gave to our officials is a sum of N613,900.00.
The policemen said that it was only one of the armed
robbers that was apprehended. The armed robber made
his statement to the -police when we were making our own
statement' to the police. I see the defendant at the dock. I
cannot say whether he was the person we made
statements together with as it was dark by the time we
were making the statements."
When the witness was cross examined by the learned counsel for
the defendant, she testified that she was the only cashier present
when the armed robbers came. It is her evidence that she did not
observe the face of any of the robbers. The P.W.2 who was the
team leader in his evidence confirmed that on the 6th day of March ,
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