guided by the decision in the case under reference as well as the other decisions cited therein, in relation to the complaint he has on the evidence of PW1. In the instant appeal, the Appellant glaringly did not take a cue from decided cases dealing with evidence of a child. This is particularly so as the Appellant did not even appreciate the fact that PW1 gave evidence on oath and not unsworn evidence. In any event even if PW1 gave unsworn evidence, such evidence cannot be said to be of no value and can properly be acted upon by the lower court once it is corroborated by other material evidence implicating the Appellant. And it is indisputable that evidence of PW1 that it was the Appellant that left with the deceased on 5/4/2003 on the pretext that the deceased's mother needed her in the market, it corroborated by the evidence of PW4 as to how the Appellant not only came to the Police Station to report that he took a small girl into the bush and raped her, but also the facts that the said small girl rescued from the bush to which the Appellant led to Police later died and was identified to be the same small girl that the Appellant lured away on the pretext that her mother needed her in the market. For the foregoing and more so the detailed reasons advanced in the lead judgment of my learned brother, I too find the instant appeal to be devoid of merit and dismiss the same. The well considered judgment of the lower court delivered in Charge No. B/53C/2003 on 26/1/2005 is affirmed. > Appearances Chino Edmund Obiagwu, Esq., (with K.D. Umeanadu)For Appellant AND Mrs. C.A. Ebosele, Chief State Counsel, Edo State Ministry of Justice (with Ruth Oihimire, State Counsel; Mrs F.E. Ose-Kayode, State Counsel & M.O. Eruaga, State Counsel For Respondent