By James Oke,News/Comments, October 30, 2021,
ABUJA-Reports emerged last night that personnel of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and other security officers alleged to have been identified as Nigerian Police, invaded the residence of the Supreme Justice, Justice Mary Odili in Maitama, Abuja over an alleged intention to search the home if there might be any incriminating documents against former Governor Peter Odili, husband to the Judge. This action prompted Governor Nyesome Wike of Rivers state, who is in Abuja for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP convention scheduled to hold today and tomorrow. The Governor, along with others, Abiye Sekibo, former minister of transportation; Raymond Dokpesi, founder of DAAR communications; Austin Okpara, former deputy speaker of the House of representatives; and Okon Aniete and Lee Maeba, a former senator confirmed the incident wondering why such impunity will continue in a country where judges are been harassed for nothing.
Gov. Wike and others, ( photo, Vanguard)
Vanguard had reported last night that some anti-graft agents invaded the judge’s home to execute a search warrant as part of investigations into her husband, Peter Odili, who is a former Governor of Rivers State. Meanwhile, in a statement released by the Head of Media & Publicity of EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, outrightly debunked such action and social media report, saying that none of its officers carried out the said operation. The press statement reads:
“The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to claims in a section of the media that operatives of the Commission today, October 29, 2021 stormed the Maitama, Abuja home of a Judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Mary Odili, purportedly to execute a search. The Commission by this statement wishes to inform the public that the report is false as it did not carry out any operation at the home of Justice Odili. If there was any such operation as claimed by the media, it was not carried out by the EFCC. The Commission enjoins the public to discountenance the report”.
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