I didn't make confessional statement, says UNILAG alumnus accused of rape

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John Otema, an alumnus of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), standing trial for having unlawful sexual intercourse with students of the institution..

John Otema, an alumnus of the University of Lagos , standing trial for having unlawful sexual intercourse with students of the institution has denied voluntarily making parts of his purported confessional statement to the police.

The defence counsel said that Otema was coerced to write that he voluntarily wrote the contents and was not beaten prior to writing the statement. “It is a flagrant violation of Section 34 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended,” Onyeka said.Urging the court to look at the proof of evidence, the defence counsel, requested that the court order a trial-within-trial to ascertain the voluntariness or otherwise of Otema’s alleged confessional statement.

 

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