MILITARY JUDGE SUPPRESSES KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED’S FBI CONFESSION IN 9/11 CASE. (PHOTO).
Military judge suppresses Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s FBI confession in 9/11 case A military judge has excluded a confession that alleged Sept. 11 attacks mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed gave to FBI agents nearly 20 years ago, ruling that the statements were not made voluntarily. The decision is a setback for the U.S. government's long-running effort to prosecute Mohammed, who is accused of helping develop the plot to hijack planes and crash them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Mohammed remains detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, alongside other defendants awaiting trial. Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, the judge overseeing the case, scheduled a June 2028 trial for Mohammed and three other defendants earlier this week. In an order issued Friday that has not been made public, Schrama barred prosecutors from using statements Mohammed made during four days of FBI questioning at Guantanamo in January 2007. Mohammed had previously been captured and held by the CIA, where he was subjec...
According to the Director General of Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate {PTAD}Nellie Mayshak,said they have discovered 3,000 ghost pensioners in the police pension scheme.She made the disclosure at a two day sensitisation workshop in Abuja yesterday thursday saying ''When PTAD was first given the police pensions payroll,it contained 18,000 pensioners which we thought were all genuine.But when we went around the states to verify,we discovered that there were 15,000 pensioners in the police.If we had not made this discovery,we would have been paying pension to these non-existing 3,000 pensioners''.She said that the diectorate saved the Federal Government more than N100 million monthly which would have been paid to the ghost pensioners.She said PTAD was partnering with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission {EFCC} and Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission {ICPC} to ensure that pension fraudsters were eliminated in the system.She advised further that Pensioners are to submit their pension records to PTAD so that it could access their liabilities and advise them appropriately.
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