IDRIS
V.
STATE

ABIRU JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This appeal is against the judgment of the Kaduna State High Court in charge No. KDH/KAD 5C/2007, delivered by Honorable Justice G. I. Kurada on 29 June 2010. The appellant, along with four (4) other persons, were arraigned before the lower court on a two-count charge of armed robbery punishable under section 1(2)(a) of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Act, 1990 (as amended). The appellant was the first accused person and he A was alleged to have attacked, in the company of the four other persons, one Auwal Zakari Alhassan and one Salisu Zakari and members of their family at No. 25, Kwoi Street, Zango, Tudun-Wada, Kaduna in the night of 14 August 2006 at about 2:40am, while armed with sticks, iron rods, machetes and other dangerous weapons and to have stolen the sum of N60,000.00 (sixty thousand naira) and one mobile phone from Auwal Zakari Alhassan and the sum of N5,000.00 (five thousand naira) and one mobile phone from Salisu …