st
other person that participated in the robbery. She is not awa!'e that the 1 defendant
exonerated the 2 nd defendant. She stated that all the sums of money that were
stolen belonged to her. She saw the four robbers when they came into the
compound. That it was only the 2 nd defendant that was having a gun and a torch
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light out of the two robbers that came into her room . It was the 2 defendant that
collected all the sums of money from her and handed same to the 1s l defendant. He
held the gun in his right hand and used his left hand to snatch the toJch light from
her. The 2 nd defendant held the gun in his right hand and the torch light with his
left hand throughout the operai:ion. She purchased the recharge cards that were
stolen from an authorized dealer called Amaka. She does not know the 1st
defendant 's residence . The police did not tell them whether any of the items stolen
was recovered in the defendant ';;; apartment. That the two robbers that entered her
room did not come with a bag but they took a bag that was hanging on the wall
when they finished their operation and she told the police about it. She pointed the
nd
2 defendant out at the police station as one of the robbers that robbed her. Apart
fram the police offi cers, it was only the 2 nd defendant that was there when she
identified him .
PW2
She gave her name as Nkechiyere Ileagu. In her evidence in chief, she stated that
after she came back from her shop in the night and was with her sisters in the
room, she saw four men that sca led the wall fence at the back and came into the
compound. Two of the men acco sted her sister. The other two forced her and her
sister to lie down using their feet to pin them down . The other two men were
robbing her sister. After they finished with her, they brought her to where they
were lying down and equally forc ed her to lie down . The robbers warned them not
to shout or do any thing otherwise they would return to kill them . The robbers later
escaped by scaling the fence . Her sister told her that she recognized one of the
robbers that has always been coming to her shop to buy cigarettes and tom - tom .
She saw her bag outside and discovered that her Thirty Thousand Naira
(N30,000:00) was missing. The money and recharge cards she kept in her Ecolac
box an~ her wrist watch was stolen . Her sister Chineye Ileagu lodged a report to
the police. She (PW2) made extra judicial Statement to the pol ice.
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