N33.8 billion Fraud: Saleh Mamman Gave Confessional Statements Voluntarily in Presence of his Lawyer- Witness

 The witness,  Abubakar Kwaido, an investigator with the EFCC,  while being led in evidence by prosecution counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN, objected to the allegation that the statement by the defendant was a product of threats and not voluntary, stating that the process was audio- visually recorded as the office where the  statement was taken is a general office where different parties come in and go out, adding that Mamman said he wanted to dictate   while his lawyer wrote because he was not feeling well.
The authorization form which carries the defendant’s signature read;
“ I Saleh Mamman has authorized my lawyer Mohammed Ahmed of Pineal solicitors to write on my behalf due to ill health and other health challenges, in support of this I have submitted a medical report to that effect” 
Continuing, Kwaido narrated that “the defendant was supposed to report back to our office two weeks after the initial interrogation but he absconded for about six months.  We were calling and sending him messages to report to our office for further statements and he wrote to us through his lawyers  for a reprieve of few days to report, suggesting 14 and February 20,  2024 and he chose to come on the 20 and when he came, we interviewed him and his lawyer was smiling all through and nobody threatened him.