Nigeria, May 11 -- The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday ordered a joint trial-within-trial to determine the voluntariness of statements the prosecution tendered in the alleged coup plot trial.

Judge Joyce Abdulmalik made the order after the prosecution sought to tender extra-judicial statements attributed to the defendants and accompanying video recordings as evidence.

The defence lawyers took turns objecting to the admissibility of the statements and video recordings the prosecution sought to tender, arguing that the statements were not made voluntarily.

They also maintained that the circumstances of the collection of the exhibits breached safeguards under the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA)

They cited the Anti-Tor...