confession there are other items of evidence such as
the marked currency notes of N50,000.00K found in the
sitting room of the Accused which as by evidence he
was frantically trying to hide. Indeed as chief
Magistrate presiding over cases, he had no business
engaging in any transaction ex parte with a litigant,
the mere presence of the litigant PW2 in his house
releases a state of impropriety and without doubt it
is only in furtherance of the endeavour to have
fulfilled the demand for the said money. There cannot
be any doubt as a public servant who has the power to
decide the fate of the litigant had ample opportunity
and indeed misuse such power, the facts in his
statement are very much consistent with his actions
and his confession was indeed voluntary, who else
could have known better than him. The impart of what
he deposed particularly as there is nothing to show
any impairment of rational thinking on the side of
the Accused. I am satisfied the exhibit 6, meaning
the confessional statement of the Accused is well
corroborated by the items of other evidence led by
the prosecution in particular the recovery of the
marked Naira currency of N50,000.00K by the
operatives of the ICPC particularly in the manner the
recovery was made as clearly stated herein.
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