HARUNA SIMON TSAMMANI, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Ogun State High Court holden at the Ota Judicial Division, delivered on the 14th day of July, 2015.
The Appellant herein, was arraigned, tried and convicted together with three others for having committed the offences of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, and armed robbery which are offences contrary to Sections 6(b) and 1(2)(a) of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Act, Cap. R11, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004. They were said to have robbed one Mrs. Cecilia Akinsanya at about 1.00a.m on the 29/3/2009. The prosecutions case is that, the Appellant in the company of the other accused persons entered the house of the complainant; Mrs. Cecilia Akinsanya at about 1.00a.m while armed with a cutlass and knives and thereby robbed the said complainant of her Laptop, Ankara clothes and the sum of six thousand naira (N6,000.00). It was contended that the complainant,…