*It is not true – EFCC
*We didn’t do such thing – Police
By KEMI KASUMU
Media reports went out Friday evening that operatives of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) and those of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) stormed the Abuja home of Supreme Court Judge, Justice Mary Odili.
According to one of the reports by an online newspaper (not The DEFENDER), the officials, who were accompanied by armed policemen, went to the judge’s home to execute a search warrant as part of investigations into her husband, Peter Odili, who is a former Governor of Rivers State.
But when The DEFENDER called the Spokesman of EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, to get the truth of the development, he outrightly refuted the report saying that his agency did not go for such operation.
“It is not true,” Uwujaren said.
Pressed a little further as to whether he was aware that any such operation took place, the EFCC Spokesman said, “It didn’t happen at all.”
We also put a call to the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CP Frank Mba, to get the side of his security agency but his phone was busy. He was later sent a text and to which he swiftly replied, also saying nothing like that happened.
“The Police did not carry out any operation there please,” Frank Mba, a Commissioner of Police, told The DEFENDER Friday night.
Effort to get across to the Odili family with a view to unraveling the mystery behind the story proved abortive as at the time of filing this report.
A source contacted in Abuja, however, wondered why some individuals would put up such a sensitive information, albeit unverifiable, for grab by the media, “knowing the implications of setting an anti-corruption agency and foremost security organisation, which the Nigerian Police Force is, against the judiciary at this time in the life of the nation.”
