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“Enough Is Enough, We Can Bite”: Supreme Court Sends Warning On Odili Home Raid
The Supreme Courtroom has sternly condemned the invasion of the residence of one in every of its personal, Justice Mary Odili by safety operatives final Friday.
The apex courtroom stated the safety operatives appeared to have been on a mission to “kill and maim” her.
The power males consisting of troopers and officers of the Nigeria Police Power (NPF) have been stated to have recognized themselves as members of a joint process power.
That they had arrived with a search warrant, saying they obtained info on “unlawful actions” occurring in the home.
A press release signed by its Director of Press & Data, Dr Festus Akande, described the invasion of Odili’s dwelling as a reminder of the “October 2016 midnight invasion of the properties of our revered justices with no passable explanations as to the true motive behind such brazen assault on our collective sensibility”.
It, subsequently, despatched a message to the Muhammadu Buhari-led govt arm of presidency, which controls safety operatives, saying “sufficient is sufficient”.
The assertion learn, “We’re alarmed with the information of the unwarranted and despicable raid on the official residence of one in every of our senior justices within the Supreme Courtroom, Hon. Justice Mary Peter Odili, JSC, CFR on Friday twenty ninth October, 2021 in a Gestapo method that sadly depicted a gory image of battle by some armed individuals suspected to be safety operatives representing completely different businesses of presidency, who appeared to have come to kill and maim their goal below the guise of enterprise a search whose warrant was questionable and baseless.
“We’re deeply saddened and brought aback by this uncivilized and shameful present of primitive power on an harmless judicial officer that has to this point spent a number of years of her productive life serving the nation she calls her personal.
“This incident introduced again, fairly painfully, the ugly reminiscence of the October 2016 midnight invasion of the properties of our revered justices with no passable explanations as to the true motive behind such brazen assault on our collective sensibility.
“We want to make it abundantly clear that the Nigerian Judiciary is the third arm of the federal government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and ought to be revered and handled as such.
“We’ve had a full dosage of this fusillade of unwarranted and unprovoked assaults on our judicial officers and even services throughout the nation and we are saying it loudly now that sufficient is sufficient.
“The judiciary ought to by no means be misconstrued by any particular person or establishment of presidency because the weeping baby among the many three arms of presidency that should all the time be chastised and ridiculed to silence due to our conservative disposition.
“Although there have emerged discordant tunes from the assorted safety businesses that allegedly participated within the dastardly act, we’re not mendacity low on this dehumanizing remedy meted out to one in every of our personal.
“We’ve commenced a full-scale unbiased investigation to unravel the true masquerades behind the thriller in addition to the actual motives behind the entire imbroglio.
“Equally, we name on the Inspector Basic of Police of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to rise as much as the event by finishing up a discreet investigation and make his findings recognized to the Nigerian public with a view to bringing the perpetrators to justice as rapidly as doable.
“The Nigerian Judiciary can’t solely bark however may also chew. We will not be handled with disdain and levity.
“The rule of legislation and constitutionality should govern our conduct in order that we will tag together with the comity of countries and be taken significantly too.”Supreme Courtroom Sends Warning.
