JOHN IDO V. THE STATE

STANLEY SHENKO ALAGOA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of Oduntan J. of the High Court of Justice Abeokuta, Ogun State of Nigeria in Charge No. RFT/5/96 delivered on the 28th April, 2000 convicting the Appellant and sentencing him to life imprisonment for Attempted Armed Robbery under Section 2(2) (a) of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Act Cap 398 Laws of the federation of Nigeria 1990.

The case for the prosecution briefly is that on the 21st September, 1993, one Adeyemi Adetoro, a driver with a Company known as Sundere (Nigeria) Ltd. Lagos Nigeria was driving his employer's trailer with registration number LA 2808 SF loaded with about one thousand six hundred crates of stout from Lagos to Ado Ekiti in the company of a motor attendant by name Edun when along the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway at a point after Ogere toll gate their trailer was stopped by the Appellant and two other persons now at large. All three persons were dres…