Section 183(3) of the Evidence Law since there is no where such evidence implicated the appellant. He relies on the Supreme Court's decision in: Sambo v. State (1993) 7 (Pt.1) SCNJ 128 at p 130 - 139 per Omo JSC. I think it is not out of place if one discusses the content of rape under Penal Code Law, Cap. 89 as applicable in Adamawa State. Rape is defined by section 282(1) of the Penal Code thus:"Aman is said to commit rape who, save in the case referred to in Subsection 2, has sexual intercourse with a woman in any of the following circumstances(a) against her will; (b) without her consent; (c) with her consent, when the man knows that he is not her husband and that her consent, when she is under fourteen years of age or of unsound mind." The most crucial issue in this appeal is the question of corroboration of the evidence of the victim of the rape. This type of corroboration is certainly, not the ordinary corroboration, it goes further than that. It demands such corroboration to clearly implicate the accused here appellant. See S. 183(3) of the Evidence Act Cap 112 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990. "A person shall not be liable to be convicted of the offence unless the testimony admitted by virtue of this section and given on behalf of the prosecution is corroborated by some other material evidence in support thereof implicating the accused." It is interesting to note that ordinarily in a plain language corroboration is confirmation, ratification, verification or validation of an existing evidence coming from another independent witness or witnesses. Â Â S. 179 of the Evidence Act Cap 112 provides:-

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