A prosecution told the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday that six men facing charges over last year’s failed coup against President Bola Tinubu voluntarily gave confessiomal statements to interrogators during investigations.
The witness, who testified as the first witness in a trial-within-trial organised to determine the voluntariness of the written statements of the defendants, said the interrogation sessions for each of the defendants were captured in video recordings.
Judge Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court in Abuja paused the main trial on Monday to pave the way for the trial-within-trial, after the six defendants challenged the voluntariness of their statements as the prosecution sought to tender them as exhibits.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defence lawyers argued that their clients made the statements during the interview sessions under duress.
Charges and coup
