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 nd 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 13

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