The suspected terrorists told the Court of Recognition of Sin to DSS made under pressure

A terrorist suspect, Asmau Omar, and three others told the Federal High Court, Ibadan, on Thursday that their confession statement was obtained with full pressure.

They stated this during the trial in the trial, after the legal counsel, Mr. Seun Agunloye, has opposed the acceptance of statements outside the law being tendered by the prosecution of his client.

Omar was charged with three Nigerian Civil and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) officials due to alleged illegal weapons and terrorism transactions in 2023.

Other defendants are Okesola Olamide, Adeleke Adewale, and Emmanuel Olatunji.

The quartet was charged by the State Service Department (DSS) on the charges of 15-conspiracy calculations, terrorism, weapons transactions that violate the law, and help and conspiring with terrorism.

Omar, who spoke through the Hausa language translator, said the DSS operators who investigated the problem threatened to kill him if he refused to work together and write a statement of recognition that he participated in the crime.

He said: “In a video clip that was played in February in court, DSS gave me a bottle of Fanta drink, but I was not the one who drank it.

“On the day they put me in the cell, they took off my dress and I had to sleep only in my short underwear.

“Then, they began to defeat me, because I didn’t say what they wanted to say.

“They beat me further and told me that they would kill me if I didn’t work with them.

“Because they did not obey them, they chanted my feet and hung me.

“I just smiled at the point when the DSS operators gave me the clothes they took from me, and I was not the person who drinks the fanta drinks you see in the video clip.”

During further examination, another defendant, Okesola, told the court that he was hung and beaten with an iron stick before he mistakenly recognized an illegal acts of terrorism.

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The defendant said he did not make a statement of recognition before his lawyer or his relatives.

In his own testimony, Adewale stated that DSS researchers made him inhuman treatment when they chanted feet, hands, and torture him.

He added that the investigators dictated what he wrote in a statement of recognition to him.

Likewise, Olatunji said he was the author of the statement, but he wrote the same under pressure.

However, the four defendants agreed during the cross -examination by legal advisors, Ta Ta Nurudeen, that the NSCDC state commando, the agency head office in Abuja, and DSS, all conducted separate investigations on them before they were finally charged.

Furthermore, judge Nkeonye Maha postponed this case until December 4 to adopt a written address.