.The record of this honourable court shows that the 1st defendant
denied making the ·said statement to the police ..
The 1st and 2nd defendants in defence of this .case tendered their
statements to the- police at Awada Police Station dated 10/2/2015 as
exhibits J2 and J3 on 28/9/2016. In both statements tendered /, as
Exhibits J2 and J3 made by 1st and 2nd defendants respectively both
defendants denied being involved in the said armed robbery on the
8/2/2015.
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In Exhibit J2 the 1 defendant stated with respect to the driver's ·
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licence of Pwl thus :
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"The security man now took us to their office/ searched
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us and recovered a drivers license belong to one Mrs.
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Dr. Esomonu N, 1.... k :: Theodora. It happens on S(Jnday
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being tfh January 2015 I went to centre park Owerri
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Road and picked a drivers licence. My aim of picking
the licence was to called the owner on phone to come
and collect _lt I was not aware that robbers made away
with peoples properties or robbed with arms. I have
never steal before. It was yesterday night my friend
Oyam told me to accompany him to ever Joy bread
Industry to stolen fire wood. I don't have a gang/ am
only a Job man/~
The 2nd defendant in Exhibit J3 stated thus:
"Later in the night I and my friend whose name is
unknown both of us went to ever Joy bread industry
and stolen fire wood. As we are coming out from there
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