The National Human Rights Commission on Monday described the raid as a violation of Justice Odili’s integrity and right to privacy. The Executive Secretary of the NHRC, Tony Ojukwu (SAN), in a statement said, “The perpetrators must therefore be made to account for their professional misconduct by arresting them, prosecuting them and she deserves a public apology from those responsible for their professional misconduct.”
Also, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and Coalition of Civil Society Organisations in the South-East condemned the invasion , describing it as a “miasma.”
In a separate statement on Monday, Ohanaeze and the coalition of CSOs demanded that the Federal Government should tender an apology to Justice Odili , while those who carried out the invasion be brought to justice.
Ohanaeze in a statement by its spokesman, Alex Ogbonnia, said, “It is ethically reprehensible and globally unacceptable for the executive to invade the home of a senior member of the judicial arm of the government, in this case a Supreme Court justice.”
The statement added, “The invasion of Justice Mary Odili residence is simply a mockery of democracy and a foul miasma on the image of Nigeria. The siege on her home is an assault on several institutions; womanhood, judiciary, democracy, rule of law, civil society and indeed all facets of humanity.”
On their part, the CSOs in statement said the “gestapo invasion and raiding” was reprehensible.
It said, “The cabalistic government must have also seen her as a major threat in the post Anambra’s kangaroo governorship poll’s litigation and a stumbling block to the repetition of the Imo Supreme Court infamy of January 2020.”