Nigeria: N10bn Fraud Trial – Two EFCC Witnesses Deny Obtaining Statements From Ali Bello, Co-Defendant By Coercion

The witnesses denied threatening Ali Bello and his co-defendant with an electric chair while obtaining their statements preparatory to the N10 billion fraud trial.

Two Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigators on Tuesday denied coercing Ali Bello, a nephew of former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello, and his co-defendant, to write their extrajudicial statements in connection with their N10 billion money laundering trial.

The investigators, Yazid Bawa and Adamu Yusuf, who are the…