HABEEB ADEWALE OLUMUYIWA ABIRU, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Sokoto Judicial Division, delivered on the 11th of July, 2018 in Appeal No CA/S/72c/2016. The Appellant, along with one Nafiu Samaila and two other persons at large, was arraigned before the High Court of Kebbi State, the trial Court, on a two-count charge of conspiracy to commit armed robbery and armed robbery.
The Appellant and his co-accused persons were alleged to have, on or about the 10th of October, 2014 at Wadata Area in Jega Town, Jega Local Government Area of Kebbi State, conspired to commit armed robbery in three houses. The Appellant and his co-accused persons were also alleged to have, on the same date and at the same location, entered into the houses of one Zainula Abidina, Surajo Abubakar and Bashiru Umar while armed with knives and cutlasses and to have collected various brands of cell phones and sums of money from the inhabitants under a th…