was not the scenario at the trial, the learned trial judge was eminently justified in admitting into evidence, the appellants confessional statement, that is, Exhibit P3. The appellant in Exhibit P4, which he made subsequently on 4th March, 2015, after Exhibit P3, denied the charge/allegation against him. This is what he said in Exhibit P4, to wit: I of the above name and address voluntarily elect to state as follows. That on the 21/02/2015, I was staying in my house at Amaekpu and the mother to one Ezinne Ukpai Arusi met me and complained to me that for the past five days, she has not seen the daughter and that I should help her find where the girl is and after listening to the woman, I commenced searching for the girl and I saw her in one Eni Irem Ezes house and I asked the boy why the girl is in his house and he said that the girl is his girl friend and I asked her if she know that the mother has been looking for her and I took the girl and the boy to my house. Moreover, I wanted to take them to her mother but I remembered that the mother has gone to the farm. Hence I took them to my house and when I reached my house, I gave her water to wash her face and gave her tooth brush to brush her teeth and I gave her food she cooked and ate and left the remaining one for me which I later ate. I did not have sex with Ezinne. I can remember that I made a statement at Afikpo South Division in respect of this case on the 23rd Feb., 2015 and I signed the statement voluntarily. I want to take the statement I am making here and not the statement I made at Afikpo South Divisional headquarters. The girl later ran away from me and I did not report to anybody when the girl ran away. This is my statement. Oka Chima Udeh