The Senate on Tuesday condemned the invasion of the Abuja home of Supreme Court Justice, Mary Peter-Odili, by operatives of security agencies.
The lawmakers also commended the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, for making arrests and constituting a panel to investigate the raid on her residence.
It urged the Police Inspector-General to make public all findings of investigation into the matter.
These formed part of resolutions reached by the Senate, following a point of order raised by Senator Betty Apiafi (PDP, Rivers West) during plenary.
Apiafi, while coming under order 42 and 52 of the Senate Standing Rules, moved a motion on the “Urgent Need to Investigate the Invasion of Justice Mrs. Odili’s Residence by Security Agents.”
The lawmaker in her motion noted that on October 29, 2021, security operatives invaded the home of the Supreme Court Judge.
She noted that Justice Mary Odili is the second most senior judicial officer in Nigeria.
She recalled that a joint panel recovery unit of the Ministry of Justice, comprising of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Nigerian Police and the Ministry of Justice, purportedly sought for a search warrant from an FCT Magistrate after a so called whistleblower claimed to have observed illegal activities allegedly going on in a house at Imo street, Maitama.
She added that, “the Senate is worried that this incident brings back to mind the similar invasion of homes of some senior Judicial Officers, including Chief Judges of the Supreme Court, and Judges of the Federal High Court in Abuja and other parts of the country in October 2016, which was widely condemned.
