one security stopped us and started _questioning us
over the firewood. I and my friend took the security
man to No. 7 Isiokpo Street Awada meanwhile it was
not the place we stolen the firewood. Later we took
the security man to ever joy bakery while the owner of
the bakery identify us as people that used to steal his
fire_wood. From .there the security man took us to their
office/ searched us and discovered one driver's licence
belonging to Mrs. Dr. Esomonu Nneka Theodora from
my friend. On that faithful Sunday Efh February 2015 I
was not at Onitsha. I travelled to Ozubulu. I am not
aware that robbers robbed at Centre Park Owerri Road.
Why I stolen the firewood is to sell it and make a little
money for myselr~
As can be seen from the evidence of Pwl , and Pw3, the
statements of the defendar:,ts in Exhibits J2 and J3 made at Awada
Police Station wh ich were not confessiona l as to the alleged robbery for
which the defendants were charged in th is case were first made to
police before the alleged confessional statement made by the defendant
to SAR Unit Onitsha .
The statements of the defendants in Exhibits J2 and J3 seems to
cast doubt on the alleged confessional statements of the defendants in
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Exhibits G and H. In Exhibit J3 the 2
defendants stated that he is a
native of Eziora Ozubulu in Ekwusigo Local Government Area and went
further to state that he was at Ozubulu on the 8/2/2015 when the
incident of armed robbery took place. Having raised the defence of alibi
at the time of investigation and given particulars of it the onus rest on
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