Bombing Of ThisDay Office: Court Fixes Sept. 30 For Adoption Of Addresses

[Shola Sholaz]

Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court on Tuesday in Abuja fixed Sept. 30 for the adoption of addresses in a criminal suit filed against Mustapha Umar, an alleged suicide bomber.
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Ademola gave the date when the counsel to the suspect, Mr Sulyman Nurunee, officially announced to the court that his client had closed his defence.
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Umar, who acted as the star defence witness, said he was framed by the police.
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He explained that the police had extracted confessional statements from him at five different times.
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According to him, "I cannot remember giving any statements to the police in the course of my interrogation.
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"They did try hard to force words out from my mouth by the way they maltreated and tortured me; I beg the Judge to consider my testimony as the truth,'' he said.