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be amongst the people who perpetrated the offence on that day.
And I have found as a fact that the P.W.3 could not be able to
identify the defe11dant as being in company of the people who
robbed the bank when there was no close observation of the
robbers. If it is true that the P.W.3 identified the defendant at the
poHce station, at least, it will be clearly stated in the evidence of
the P.W.2 and the Police Investigation Report which is Exhibit "A" .
I don't believe the evidence of the P.W.3 to the effect that he
identified the defendant at the Police Station. The evidence of the
defendant as the D.W.1 is that he was not identified as one of the
robbers at the police station . These are the reasons why I viewed
the evidence of the P.W.3 identifying the defendant with suspicion .
I find the evidence ofthe P.W.3 to the effect that he observed the
defendant during the robbery incident and was able to identify him
unreliable and unsafe. The implication is that the P.W.3 did not
adduce any direct evidence linking the defendant with the
commission of the offence of robbery or stealing .
I will now consider the circqmstantial evidence adduced by the
P.W.1 and P.W.2 . This piece of evidence made the learned
counsel for the defen_dant to argue in his final written address that
since the D.P.O. who·gave the information to the P.W.1 and P.W.2
as well as Supol Okoro who was the leader of the patrol team that
allegedly arrested the defendant did not testify, the testimony of
the P.W.1 and P.W.2 -in relation to the arrest and recovery of the
money from the defendant is hearsay. I have in that regard
painstakingly read the evidence of the P.W.1. Her evidence in
relation to the arrest of the defendant is clearly hearsay evidence.
But her evidence that they waited until his men arrived with the
people and it happened that the money on them was in the
wrapper of Oluchukwu Micro Finance Bank is not hearsay but
evidence of what she observed . In the same vein, the evidence of
the P.W.2 to the effect that the ·defendant told them that he fell
down from the motor-cycle and was arrested together with the
money they stole from Oluchukwu Micro Finance Bank is not
hearsay evidence but e~idence of what the defendant told him.
I come to the extra judicial statement of the defendant which is
Exhibit "C". The learned counsel for the defendant in his final
written address has argued that the Police did not comply with the
provisions of section 13 (2) and (3) of the Administration of
Criminal Justice Law, 2010 in obtaining the confessional statement
of the defendant which is Exhibit "C". He referred to the case of
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