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The prosecution successful the ongoing proceedings of six men accused of complicity successful a crippled to topple the President Bola Tinubu-led medication has urged a Federal High Court successful Abuja to admit successful grounds the statements made to investigators by the accused persons.
The 4th witnesser for the prosecution, successful the trial-within-trial being conducted to ascertain the voluntariness oregon different of the statements, made the petition portion telling the tribunal that the statements were voluntarily made by the defendants, who helium said were not subjected to immoderate signifier of torture oregon harassment.
The witness, identified arsenic “DDD”, was led successful grounds by the prosecuting lawyer, Rotimi Oyedepo (SAN), during which helium denied each the allegations by the defendants, including claims that they were tortured into making the statements successful which 5 of them, but the archetypal defendant, admitted knowing astir the plot.
On the assertion by the defendants that their feet were chained, the witnesser said: “It is not true. The feet of the defendants were not chained. They walked into the interrogation country by themselves.”
He said if it were existent that they were chained, the dependable of the chains would person been heard successful the video that was played successful tribunal earlier connected Tuesday.
On wherefore their lawyers were not contiguous portion they were being interviewed, the witnesser said nary of them reque...
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