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. 42

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