Hausa and English translated version respectively the defendant stated as follows; “--- On Saturday 8/8/2020 at about 15:00hrs, I saw this girl Maryam Umar coming back after she come back from the bush of our village Inname with grasses and she come near our farm I now block her and I put her my hand finger inside her vagina [private part} and her anus from there she started crying and shouting and she was calling her grandmother as I see I know her and I know her parent house and I know her quite okay we were almost the same place that is all I know----.” Although the defendant appeared to have retracted his confessional statement during his oral testimony before the court as DW1, his confessional statement, being clear direct positive and unequivocal as to his guilt and substantially corroborated by Exhibit B which is the medical report showing the evidence of blunt vaginal penetration in respect of Maryam Umar. In the case of OKANLAWON V STATE (2015) 17 NWLR pt the Supreme Court stated the law as follows; “The law is settled that where an extra judicial confession has been proved and established to have been made voluntarily and it is direct, positive and unequivocal admission at suffice to ground a finding of guilt regardless of the fact that the maker resides from it all together at the trial.” - Musa V. The State (2019) 10 WRN. - Umar V. FRN (2019) 13 WRN. Page 17 of 22