{"id":224077,"date":"2026-02-18T00:24:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-n10bn-fraud-trial-two-efcc-witnesses-deny-obtaining-statements-from-ali-bello-co-defendant-by-coercion\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:24:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:24:51","slug":"nigeria-n10bn-fraud-trial-two-efcc-witnesses-deny-obtaining-statements-from-ali-bello-co-defendant-by-coercion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-n10bn-fraud-trial-two-efcc-witnesses-deny-obtaining-statements-from-ali-bello-co-defendant-by-coercion\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: N10bn Fraud Trial &#8211; Two EFCC Witnesses Deny Obtaining Statements From Ali Bello, Co-Defendant By Coercion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The investigators, Yazid Bawa and Adamu Yusuf, who are the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602170523.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,19480,18032,46377,50510,9583,11129,8666,50427,257,4687,393,36039,254,13895,6564,12677],"class_list":["post-224077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ali","tag-bello","tag-codefendant","tag-coercion","tag-deny","tag-efcc","tag-fraud","tag-n10bn","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-obtaining","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statements","tag-trial","tag-witnesses"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}