oppressive means, without going through a trial within
trial, such statement will not be considered admissible for
that purpose. See BELLO v COP (2018) 2 NWLR Pt 1603 Pg
207 at 319 – 320 where the Supreme Court held inter alia
thus:
“The law is that resiling from a confessional statement
made earlier, or denied by an accused person of
having made such a statement does not ipso facto
render it inadmissible in evidence.
The caveat,
however, is that where admitted in evidence, the
court should not act on it without first testing the
veracity or truth thereof”
The above now leads to how the statements of the
Defendant (Exhibits N1– N5) was obtained.
It was the
evidence of the Defendant who testified as DW1 that
sometime in January 2016, the EFCC stormed and sealed
a building known as Capital Hub located in Mabushi,
Abuja; Defendant’s daughters shop believing same to
belong to the Defendant.
The EFCC without any
justification also froze the account of the Khalli Fertilizer
Limited, a company where the Defendant’s daughter is a
Director.
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