ABUJA — Justice Mary Odili, who, yesterday, bowed out the bench of the apex court, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to pay attention to calls for the country to be restructured, warning that some actions that propelled the civil war, were being re-enacted.

Justice Odili, who clocked the 70 years mandatory retirement age, spoke at a special valedictory session the Supreme Court held in her honour.

She said her decision to use the occasion to draw attention to how millions of lives were lost during the Nigerian civil war, was not to whip up animosities or negative feelings, “but to call to mind of all and sundry, the emergency situation which now faces our nation.


“It, therefore, behooves on me, the duty to speak with the platform open to me today as a retired justice of the Supreme Court.

“I intend to do so with the concept of taking the option of ‘dying on my feet than living on my knees’. A postulation of Emilo Zapata Salazar, the Mexican leader in the Revolution of 1910-1920.


“In the spirit of one who has lived through a lot of experiences and accosted by knowledge, good and bad, I will talk to my country men, women and children loud and clear.

“As I had earlier mentioned, I lived through the Nigerian civil war, which was precursed by the January 15, 1966, army coup and later the July 1966 pogrom as it was referred to.


“In the July incident, I saw men running in their underpants with or without singlets from the Ikeja Army Cantonment, which presentation made us leave our home at Ikeja GRA as the killings moved from the Igbo soldiers in the barracks to civilian population of Igbo and we had to take refuge in a room in Surulere and later to the East and the follow up war that incepted in 1967.

“During the war, we survived the air raids with the bombers and fighters as low as the height of fruit trees with me catching the eyes of one of the pilots on an occasion.


“I am bringing this period up not to whip up animosities or negative feelings, but to call to the mind of all and sundry, the emergency situation which now faces our nation.

“Some of the actions or speeches that propelled the unfortunate war, which took the lives of millions of our people are being re-enacted at this time, hence the necessity for this reminder.

“I am delving into this area of our national life in the light of the saying that while one ought not to hold on to the past but must move forward, the lessons of the past should not be dispatched to the dustbins of history but utilised positively to navigate the present and future.“

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/05/actions-that-caused-civil-war-being-re-enacted-justice-odili/

;DThe end is near

Supreme Court Justice Odili doesn’t talk often

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“In the July incident, I saw men running in their underpants with or without singlets from the Ikeja Army Cantonment, which presentation made us leave our home at Ikeja GRA as the killings moved from the Igbo soldiers in the barracks to civilian population of Igbo and we had to take refuge in a room in Surulere and later to the East and the follow up war that incepted in 1967.

I still wonder how igbos officers were caught unguard and allowed themselves to be butchered by what I call the most useless , unprofessional good for nothing military in human history.

Not even small unit of resistance in ikeja and Ibadan as if they were jazzed to submission.

Hmmm, vision-less country

Mary Odilli the most courageous and fearless Supreme Court justices of our time.

kettykings:


I still wonder how igbos officers were caught unguard and allowed themselves to be butchered by what I call the most useless , unprofessional good for nothing military in human history.

Not even small unit of resistance in ikeja and Ibadan as if they were jazzed to submission.

Very interesting observation. And the country was rife with the rumour of an impending counter coup.

kettykings:


I still wonder how igbos officers were caught unguard and allowed themselves to be butchered by what I call the most useless , unprofessional good for nothing military in human history.

Not even small unit of resistance in ikeja and Ibadan as if they were jazzed to submission.

Take your time and watch the Holocaust on Netflix and see for yourself how a population can be enchanted to die without resistance.
It is a state of mind. It is a period where a generation of people give up. The will to resist is no more, because there is no where to run.
Jews were hunted all over Europe. They had no home land to run.

What is she even saying? Teaching us history?
Pls ma we already know the history.
After helping Wike and Rivers State to collect Imo state oil wells, whose slot she used to get to surpreme court.
Enjoy your retirement ma, and leave us with the history you couldn't do anything to re write as a justice of the surpreme court

Naija sitting on a Keg of Gun Powder. Only way to avert a catastrophe is for Justice to be Served for Deborah.

This bloodthirsty Islamic lunatic & his murderous cohorts are not above the law of the land...

kettykings:


I still wonder how igbos officers were caught unguard and allowed themselves to be butchered by what I call the most useless , unprofessional good for nothing military in human history.

Not even small unit of resistance in ikeja and Ibadan as if they were jazzed to submission.

It is called ambush, once you are taking unaware, there's nothing or little you can do.
Though, they were foolish to sleep and snore in midst of their enemies, especially that Iguiyi Ironsi that left Lagos to Ibadan when there was fire on the mountain.
Similar to how Nnamdi Kanu left Europe to Kenya

Lessons learnt...This generation promises not to make the mistakes of 1967.. 1967 was sacrifice for all non northerners and Christians all over..This one is for us.. We meeeuve

We the descendants of Prophet Elijah who is more brutal than alfa moohamed(moongod) won't let that happen.

izac82:

Take your time and watch the Holocaust on Netflix and see for yourself how a population can be enchanted to die without resistance.
It is a state of mind. It is a period where a generation of people give up. The will to resist is no more, because there is no where to run.
Jews were hunted all over Europe. They had no home land to run.

The two events are not related. The Jews were not in political power or governance

same way they are in our bushes gathering by the moment...dealing with benue unaware...
Thank God for the boys in the bush..Scattering their already made plan

kettykings:


I still wonder how igbos officers were caught unguard and allowed themselves to be butchered by what I call the most useless , unprofessional good for nothing military in human history.

Not even small unit of resistance in ikeja and Ibadan as if they were jazzed to submission.

Ebubu3:
Supreme Court Justice Odili doesn’t talk often

Indeed. Her warning is apt to those who stubbornly, arrogantly and casually dismiss the call to restructure Nigeria.

It is crystal clear to even a blind man that we cannot continue as Nigeria is currently constituted.

The fault lines are literally about to snap under the weight of a country set up to fail herself and her ordinary citizens.

Ebubu3:
Supreme Court Justice Odili doesn’t talk often

At all, she rarely speaks out publicly like this and something ominous must have prompted it.

If truly she said that, then she is truly a Justice. She has seen the signs already. Now some people on here might called her Ipob judge like one mod here who call herself Mumulove.

Nice one Ma Odili.