Tobi Adebayo
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mike Ozekhome has condemned the raid on the home of Supreme Court judge, Justice Mary Odili, by security operatives.
ThisNigeria reported that security operatives identified as personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, on Friday, laid siege on Odili’s Abuja residence.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN) have since denied involvement in the incident.
Speaking after a visit to Justice Odili’s residence, Ozekhome described the incident as “politically motivated” to embarass her and her husband, former Governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili.
“She didn’t resist any search. I believe that they themselves would have found that they were committing terrible hara-kiri, that is, giving them the benefit of the doubt,
“The other theory which is also as powerful is that it is politically motivated, deliberately contrived as artifice and designed to embarrass this cerebral justice of the supreme court and to embarrass her husband.
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“Of course, the husband is a well-known PDP titan, and tomorrow is the PDP convention. Could it have been designed to rake up issues and make it look like they were trying to go after him so as to demoralise the delegates for tomorrow’s convention? That is another theory.
“But whatever theory, one thing is clear to me, we are gradually moving towards the precipice of calling ourselves a banana republic. Nowhere in the world would secret agents just bump into the house of a justice of the supreme court and a former governor with an empty search warrant with no name written on it,” Ozekhome said.
