confessional statement will be relevant if it establishes beyond reasonable doubt the ingredients of the offence for which the defendant is charged as well as the identity of the defendant. Again, before there can be said to have been an armed robbery, the defendant or defendants must have stolen something which is capable of being stolen ·with violence or being armed vyith dangerous weapon: Any person who is in company of a person armed while robbery is being committed is also guilty of commission of armed robbery. Having painstakingly read Exhib.it "C" it is clear to me that it demonstrated clearly that there was a robbery on the 6th day of March, 2013 at Oluchukwu Micro Finance Bank Ltd, Holy Cross Parish, Nkpor-Agu where an undisclosed sum of money was stolen and the defendant was shown to be among those who' took part in perpetrating the robbery. However, ' at the concluding. portion of Exhibit "C", the defendant made it clear that they we:re not armed at the point in time . It is therefore pertinent at this juncture to reproduce the concluding portion of Exhibit "C". At the concluding portion of Exhibit "C" it reads :1 "/ did not carry any gun. Nobody carry gun for this job. That our informant told us that it is only one girl that is staying in the bank .. .. " • It is therefore, cry~tal clear that the concluding portion of Exhibit "C" reproduced above showed that the robbery was not an armed robbery. This is in tandem with what the prosecution has been able to prove so far. I am therefore of the opinion that Exhibit "C" is not confessional statement made by the defendant wherein he admitted all the ingredients of the offence of armed robbery with which he was charged . In my view, as long as the offence of armed robbery which the defendant is alleged to have committed is concerned, Exhibit "C" is not a confessional statement made by the defendant · stating or .suggesting the inference that he committed armed robbery. However, the defendant in Exhibit "C" confessed to having participated in the commission of a lesser offence of robbery or stealing. Accordingly, Exhibit "C" purports to be a confessional statement stating or suggesting the inference that the defendant participated in the commission of a lesser offence of robbery or stealing at Oluchukwu Micro Finance Bank Ltd, Holy Cross Pari.sh, Nkpor-Agu on the 61h day of March, 2013. We are now left with the last ingredient of the offence which the prosecution has the burden to prove beyond reasonable doubt. 12