Count us out of Justice Odili’s travails, DSS, EFCC

The Department of Security Services, DSS, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have distanced themselves from Justice Mary Odili’s house raid on Friday in Abuja.

Justice Mary Odili is the wife of the former governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili and a justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

While the DSS denied its involvement in a text message sent to a media platform, (not CAPITAL POST), the EFCC in a statement on Friday which was signed by its spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, denied their involvement.

The EFCC said, they were not involved in the raid, stressing the report of their involvement was false.

“If there was any such operation as claimed by the media, it was not carried out by the EFCC,” the statement added.

Media reports on Friday claimed that Justice Mary Odili’s residence has been raided by the combined team of the DSS and EFCC operatives.

CAPITAL POST recalled that the former governor of Rivers State, Mr. Peter Odili has been having a running battle with the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over his stewardship while he was in office from 1999- 2007.

The Federal High Court sitting has issued a restraint order from arresting Peter Odili after he filed a suit against the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS)
for impounding his international passport upon his return to Nigeria from the United Kingdom in June this year.

The NIS claimed that Odili’s travelling documents were seized on the orders of EFCC.

Also reacting to the alledged raid of Justice Mary Odili’s residence, a former Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani condemned the act and described it as unfortunate.

Sani wrote on his verified Twitter handle, saying he wasn’t surprised at a courageous woman suffering the State’s intimidation and harassment, which he said, he stood by the justice in her perilous times.