Offa robbery: I volunteered statement under duress, says suspect

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One of the suspects in the April 5th, 2018 robbery incident, Salawu Azeez, has told a Kwara High Court in Ilorin, the state capital that the police...

One of the suspects in the April 5th, 2018 robbery incident, Salawu Azeez, has told a Kwara High Court in Ilorin, the state capital that the police extracted confessional statement from him under threat to life.

“They said I and Ogunleye robbed at Offa and I denied this but they insisted. They beat me mercilessly inside a generator house, otherwise called theatre.“On the second day, I was brought out again from the cell. They showed a man to me and asked me whether I know him. The man is Michael Adikwu. Salawu further claimed that he was forced to thumb print a statement already prepared by the police against his consent.

He said that attempts by the prosecution to impress it on the court that there are only five suspects in the case amount to suppression of facts.

 

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