As to his submission that the statement was a product of
questions and answer session, that submission could be
sustained as questions and answer session is different form an
interview and it is only when the statement is admitted that
the court can determine from the flow of it whether it was in
question and answer session. As to the issue of name that the
names are different, you cannot write a name different from
the way a person wants to write his name especially where he
has the right to respond without any coercing. The names are
the same and one person. The issue of how a person chooses
to right his name, is entirely his discretion. The change bears
Dahiru Mohammed is one and the same with the name
written on the statement sought to be tendered. The issue of
whether surname come first or not is not relevant to the issue
of admissibility, we therefore submit that the issue raised by
the defence counsel is baseless. This court is urge to take
judicial notice of custom and practice that sometimes people
write their surname first before their name in respect of the
ones Dahiru Mohammed and Muhammed Dahiru. The
argument that the name of the person authorized to write is
not the same with the name of the person who signed is
baseless because it was not the responsibility of the EFCC to
direct the defendant to write the full name of his friend that
he brought to record his statement for him. It is also not the
responsibility of the EFCC to demand an order that the friend
of the defendant who recorded the statement to write the
exact way the defendant wrote it as doing that will amount to
coercion and involuntariness. Is not in everything that a
person writes his full names as the names Umar Muhammed
Muhammed Yabo is the same with Umar Muhammed Yabo.
The case of Atiku V. INEC (2020) is relevant on this part
because in that case, the issue was whether Mohammed and
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