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The facts of the case are that in the night of 16th August, 2001 between 11pm and 2a.m Pw3 Ibrahim Okolo, Pw4 Dupe Joel, and Pw5 David Abimaje were attacked in their houses in Ojiapata village in Odekina Local Government Area of Kogi State by armed assailants who robbed them of their money and took away the keys of their vehicles and the keys of the door of the main house. At about 5a.m on the 17th of August 2001, just a few hours after the robbery the 1st Appellant was arrested by the villagers of Odolu-Efu a nearby village with a bag containing a hammer, car keys belonging to Pw3 and Pw4 and the keys to Pw3's house. The 1st Appellant in his confessional statement named the 2nd Appellant as one of those who took part in the robbery. Since the confessional statement has been rejected by the lower Court rightly or wrongly and there is no cross appeal to challenge it, I shall say no more about it.