A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE RELEVANCE OF CONFESSIONAL STATEMENT IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS BETWEEN NIGERIA AND SUDAN

Notwithstanding the fact that confession is one of the means of establishing or proving a criminal case, but police investigation through confessional statement of the accused person were sometimes rejected based on confessional statement that are made not voluntary. The accused person may tend to make it forcefully by implicating himself. Many countries have their rules which regulate the admissibility of confessional Statements. These rules are made to prevent wrongful conviction of an accused person and also it deterred police from abusing the process of interrogation. Most of the times some techniques of interrogation apply by police officers violate the rights of the accused person. In this article it would look at judicial and statutory authorities on what is confessional statement, the difference and relationship of confession and admission, condition for the admissibility of confessional statement the role play by courts in relation to confession and reference will be made on the position of Nigeria law and Sudan law on confessional statement. The rationale behind the choice of both countries for comparative study is that the received English law has been there major source of law as there were colonized by the Britain.