October 30, 2021

Family members and friends of Justice Mary Odili are worried about her whereabouts after security personnel in police and Army uniform raided her Maitama, Abuja home on Friday.

The security personnel who claimed to be members of the joint task force were said to have been initially resisted by security men at the residence of the Supreme Court justice.

The security personnel, according to insiders, did not show any warrant or court order authorizing the home search. They were captured on CCTV waiting outside the compound as they argued with guards at the residence. They claimed they were acting on information about illegal activities going on in the house.

Initially, fingers pointed at the DSS and the EFCC but the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said that its operatives did not carry out any operation in Justice Mary Odili’s house.

The Spokesperson for the Commission Mr Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja.

According to him, the information being spread by a section of the media over the development is false as the anti-graft agency did not carry out any operation at the home of the Supreme Court judge.

“The attention of EFCC has been drawn to claims in a section of the media that its operatives stormed Justice Odili’s home purportedly to execute a search in Maitama, Abuja.

“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, he said.