Nigeria, April 23 -- An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) witness insisted on Wednesday that one of former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki's co-defendant in their N33.2 billion arms funds diversion trial voluntarily wrote his extrajudicial statements without any form of coercion.

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja had paused the main trial in January to conduct a trial-within-trial to ascertain Aminu Baba-Kusa, the second defendant's claim of writing the statement under duress while in EFCC custody in 2015.

Salihu Kadir, an EFCC detective, testified as the third prosecution witness in the trial-within-trial on Wednesday.

His testimony echoed earlier testimonies of two other EFCC officials...