“The defendants were armed, one with sword and the other cutlass.” With the foregoing pieces of evidence of PW2 which has not been challenged nor controverted, I agree with the submission of the prosecution that PW2 having been injured by the defendants in the course of committing robbery, the prosecution has proved all the elements of the offence of Causing Hurt while committing robbery punishable under Section 289 of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law 2019 beyond reasonable doubt, and I so hold. As to the 3rd count charge in respect of the offence of robbery, the prosecution is required to prove the following elements:i) that there was robbery; ii) that the defendant or one of the defendants was armed with an offensive weapon; and iii) that the defendant participated in the robbery. - Egbufor V. State (2019) 15 WRN 60 at 73-74. - Onyeyemi V. State (2019) 34 WRN 78 at 90-91. - Sakiru V. State (2019) 29 WRN 109. - John V. State (2019) 37 WRN 143. In Oyeyemi V. State (Supra) at p. 91 at paragraph 15, Abdullahi JCA stated the law as follows:“The law is that it is not the requirement of the law that all the accused persons must be armed with dangerous weapon, the offence is complete once an offensive weapon is used by either of the accused persons.” Page 19 of 22