12 men, I-told them that I did not see Azuka Nwokoro for a long ti(!1e. .. ... I involved myself in robbing one woman called Josephine 'f' from Osumenyi sometime ago but I did notjoin Azuka in this current one. I only helped him to escape public notice and arrest. That is all.,, The relevant portion of the 2 nd statement made by the 2nd defendant which is Exhibit "0 1" is as follows :i1. ".. .. Truly speaking, lzuchukwu Okeke did not join us the very night we robbed one Onyenwe or Michael Okeke 'm ' of Ebenasa Amichi. I only robbed the man with Azuka Nwokoro on 6-7-07. ....... lzuchukwu Okeke is to the best of my knowledge innocent of this robbery case I involved myself with Azuka Nwokoro. That is all.,, ' < ~ ~ (J'J !S < ,-.._ 0 ~ z- 11I Having painstakingly read Exhibits "C" , "C1", "O" and "0 1", it is clear to me that they demonstrated clearly that there was a robbery on the 61~ day of July, 2007 at the house of the P.W.1 and P.W .2 where an undisclosed thing was stolen and the defendants were shown to be those who took part in perpetrating the robbery. It is therefore ; crystal clear that the relevant portions of Exhibits "C" , "C 1 " , "O" and "0 1 " reproduced above showed that the robbery was not an armed robbery. Th is is in tandem with what the prosecution has been able to prove so far. I am therefore of the opin ion that Exhibits "C", "C 1" and "0 1" are not confessional statements made by the defendants wherein they admitted all the ingredients of the: offence of armed robbery with which they were charged . Exhibit "O" on the other hand is not confessional statement at all. In my view, as long as the offence of armed robbery which the defendants are alleged to have committed is concerned , Exhibits "C" , "C 1" and "0 1" are not confessional statements made by the defendants stating or suggesting the inference that they were armed during the robbery operation or committed armed robbery . However, the defendants in Exhibits "C" , "C 1" and "0 1" confessed to having participated in the commission of a lesser offence of robbery. Accordingly, Exhibits "C" , "C 1" and "0 1" purports to be confessional statements stating or suggesting the inference that the defendants participated in the commission of a lesser offence of robbery at the house of the P.W.1 and P.W.2 on the ih day of July, 2007. I don't believe the P.W.1 and P.W.2 that the robbers were carrying a gun or any weapon at all on the day of the incident. The implication of my