By Osahon Osahon
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has denied executing a search warrant in the Abuja residence of Supreme Court Judge, Justice Mary Odili.
Justice Odili is wife of a former Governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili.
Media reports had claimed that the EFCC operatives, armed with a search warrant and accompanied by police operatives, stormed the Maitama home of Justice Odili Friday afternoon, as part of investigations into her husband.
But, the anti-graft agency in a statement Friday night by the head of its Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, said if there was any search operation in the home of the Judge, it was not carried out by it.
The four-paragraph statement said, “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.”
Recall that Odili, who was Governor of Rivers State from 1999 to 2007, procured a perpetual injunction from a Federal High Court in 2007 barring the EFCC from investigating or prosecuting him.
Again, in 2020, he approached a Federal High Court to get another injunction to stop an impending probe.
And, just last month, the former Governor sued the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), for seizing his passport at the airport.
NIS however said that it was the EFCC that asked it to seize Odili’s passport as part of a probe.
Justice Inyang Ekwo, however, ordered NIS to release the passport to Odili immediately.
