A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome has described the siege on the dwelling of a Supreme Court docket Justice, Mary Odili, as a ploy to embarrass her family.
The attorney spoke to Channels Tv after safety operatives supposedly associated to the Ministry of Justice tried to succeed in entry into the Justice’s dwelling in Abuja on Friday.
The Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has denied his involvement within the botched operation.
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But Ozekhome, who faulted the vital aspects of the warrant, said the Federal Authorities could also composed scenario an apology for the embarrassment.
“The hunt warrant did no longer lift any name, of any individual. It didn’t sing Justice Mary Peter Odili. It didn’t sing the husband, Dr Peter Odili. It upright said, quantity 9, Imo Avenue,” Ozekhome said.
“Meanwhile, the very address of Justice Odili is no longer quantity 9, Imo boulevard. Who had been the opposite folks, they did no longer put a single name. What address? You bought the inappropriate address.
“So there is that this thought that it could had been a transparent case of right fallacious identity. I handiest hope so.
“But the more than a few thought, which I seem to are looking to accept as true with extra, attributable to the actions and antecedents of this govt, is that it was politically motivated.
“So I give it some opinion was performed to embarrass them. But for regardless of it was performed, it was a shame to this nation. Within the occasion that they now catch that it was an untrue entry or that it was mistake, allow them to create Nigerians and Nigeria the minimal of asserting ‘we are sorry, we made a correct mistake’. And heavens will no longer drop; and so they are going to be applauded for it.
“But allow them to no longer repeatedly faux that every one is smartly, even after inflicting sizable embarrassment.”
