BASKIN, Judge.
Finding no error in defendant's convictions for robbery and for unlawful possession of a firearm while engaged in a criminal offense, we affirm the convictions but reverse the sentence imposed for unlawful possession of a firearm while engaged in a criminal offense. Multiple sentences for lesser included offenses are precluded by State v. Monroe, 406 So.2d 1115 (Fla. 1981); State v. Hegstrom, 401 So.2d 1343 (Fla. 1981); section 775.021(4), Florida Statutes (1979).
The information alleged that in the course of committing the robbery, defendant Burke carried a pistol.
Consistent with our certification in Marshall v. State, 413 So.2d 872 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982) (on rehearing), we certify to the Supreme Court of Florida, as a matter of great public importance, the question of whether trial courts are empowered to impose separate punishments for the statutory offenses relating to the use of a firearm during the commission of a felony and the commission of that same felony by the use of a firearm.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded with directions to vacate the sentence for unlawful possession of a firearm.