motorcycle to Kofar Kware, Sokoto. After
I took them to where they requested me to
take them and while I was waiting for
them to pay me, one of them inflicted a
machete cut on my head and hand and it
was the 1st defendant who inflicted the
machete cut on me and they forcefully
dispossessed me of my motorcycle and it
was the 2nd defendant who took the
motorcycle, but before they drove away, I
shouted and one person in a car followed
them, and eventually, the defendants fell
in to a ditch. While I was there, one
Kabu-kabu operator arrived and I
explained to him what happened. He them
took me on his motorcycle and informed
me that he saw some people who had an
accident with a motorcycle and requested
me to go there and verify whether is my
motorcycle. So we went there and find out
that they were actually the people who
dispossessed me of my motorcycle.”
As to whether the defendants were armed with any dangerous
weapon, PW2 testified as follows in his evidence in chief:“The defendants were armed, one with
sword and the other with cutlass”.
The 1st defendant in his statement dated 3/6/2019 stated as follows:“On 1/6/2019 at about 0000hrs, I and
my friend by name Abubakar Mustapha
plan that we will go out to steal.
Immediately we stopped one okada rider
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