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Chief Magistrate Emmanuel Iyanna of Wuse Zone 6 magisterial division in Abuja has admitted that he was lied into signing a search warrant for the residence of a top Supreme Court jurist by the Federal Ministry of Justice under Attorney-General Abubakar Malami.

Emmanuel Iyanna consequently revoked the search warrant he approved against the top jurist’s residence due to misrepresentation in the application filed by the justice ministry.

Mr Iyanna consequently revoked the search warrant he approved against Justice Mary Odili’s residence due to misrepresentation in the first information application supplied by an ad-hoc public asset recovery panel domiciled under the justice ministry and overseen by Mr Malami.

“Upon misrepresentation to this honourable court that led to the issuance of a search warrant in favour of Joint Panel Recovery, Ministry of Justice, against House 9, Imo Street, Maitama, Abuja, dated October 29, 2021,” the senior magistrate said in a fresh order. “In view of the above fact, the said search warrant is hereby revoked.”

Mr Iyanna’s October 29 order came hours after Peoples Gazette reported that armed operatives have tried to breach the residence of Mrs Odili on Imo Rivers Street in Maitama.

Officers had arrived at the residence bearing a warrant that was issued based on whistleblower information from Aliyu Umar, an Abuja residence. Mr Umar had deposed on October 13 that there were illegal activities going on at 9, Imo Street, Maitama, that should warrant immediate action from the law enforcement. The whistleblower also said in court filings that the tip-off was supplied to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

This prompted Mr Iyanna to issue a warrant on October 29 for the property to be searched. Subsequently, operatives mobilised to Mrs Odili’s house based on the warrant seeking to forcibly search it in the evening of October 29, the same day a warrant was approved. Our sources said the Supreme Court jurist rejected the move to search her residence because she had no pending issues with anti-graft agencies.

Mrs Odili also argued that the warrant was not meant for her residence since she lives at 7, Imo River Street, Maitama, and not 9, Imo Street, Maitama, as stated in the warrant. The operatives nonetheless laid siege on the residence for hours.

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Even though the whistleblower stated in court filings that he provided his findings to the EFCC and one of the operatives had told The Gazette that EFCC led the operation, the anti-graft office denied playing a role in the operation.


“If there was any such operation” that Mrs Odili’s house was besieged by anti-graft operatives, “it was not carried out by the EFCC,” the agency’s spokesman Wilson Uwujaren said in a statement to The Gazette late Friday. The Gazette had earlier reached Mr Uwujaren for comment prior to breaking the news but received no immediate response.

Mrs Odili’s husband Peter had been under EFCC investigation for alleged fraud that dates back to his tenure as Rivers governor between 1999 and 2007. Mr Odili denied the charges, and a federal judge ordered the release of his international passport earlier this week.

A chief police superintendent, Lawrence Ajodo, also signed off on the operation and The Gazette’s sources previously mentioned that police officers were part of the operation.

The officers left Mrs Odili’s residence following the revocation of their warrant. But the development has elicited harsh criticisms of Mr Malami, whose controversial role in alleged anti-democratic moves of the administration contributed to his new status as a formidable force in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet.

In 2016, Mr Malami supported the State Security Service when its brutal personnel broke into the residences of over a dozen federal judges, including three of the Supreme Court at the time. The attorney-general also recently proposed suspension of the Nigerian Constitution and declaration of martial law in order to restore peace in volatile parts of the country.

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Source:https://gazettengr.com/agf-malami-fooled-me-into-signing-warrant-for-justice-mary-odilis-residence-chief-magistrate/

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Breez don dey blow

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Malami has always been the rascal of the Cabal. Mungono said this.

Hmmm

Even though he has washed his hands off the invasion of the house of the number 2 judge in the country, Malami still has to come clean with convincing explanations.

This is the ID card of the police officer who led the assault on the house of Justice Odili. At the back of the identity card, it was signed by the AGF. Could this officer had carried out this invasion without the imprimatur of the AGF when the so-called Task Force he leads is under the office of the AGF ?

SEEN

I heard there was no name and address on the warrant.

This is a strategy that has been in use since the 90ies.

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In Nigeria everyone is a yahoo boy.

National Judicial Council na there you get case

OK good

Truth is gradually coming out

ValZod:
In Nigeria everyone is a yahoo boy.

Lol. 100% correct. A sad state of affairs to be honest.

Even with all dis facts and evidence, nothing will happen or be done

My brother fantabulous

Malami should thread very carefully. Many will be seeking their pound of flesh from him after Buhari leaves. His only salvation will be if the new regime favours him.

All these Buhari boys should know their oga has no interest in politics beyond what he can use political office to get.

Without that political office, after May 2023, Buhari will be as useful as a woven basket deployed as a water container. Buhari is no Tinubu or even an Orji Kalu or Kwankwaso.

All those offending others in Buhari's name better be very careful stepping on powerful toes.

RuggedBiafran:
Malami...AND Mungono and Patanmi.,,,Garuba shehu..are the 4 musketeers holding it down for the most useless government in history....

i hear say the "frog eyed" weasel went to Abuja for photoshoot with his "pirate of Lagos" leg..

Pirate of Lagos Leg. hahahahahaa

Malami again
Wolve in sheep clothing

Mallam malami

The gods sent AGF to Buhari

For a whole AGF to approach a magistrate them you should have known it's a hatchet job

Malami has proven to be the most petty idiot in Nigeria today and this shows how low Buhari is for having such a man as the attorney general.

Hahahaha, hmmm, make I read am first. Our darling daddy hope u have read it

Sharia men @ the helm of affairs

Please I want to know something.. Is Malami Buhari's/APCs atony or he's the Nigerian atony general? I really don't inset his job.

The CM has said nothing beyond mere words that have no substance in facts.

How exactly was the CM lied to? What did the investigators tell him they were going for? Whom did they say they were going to look for?

If the CM didn't ask these questions or doesn't say what he truly knows, he shouldn't be a CM in a kindergarten class.

Malami is a terrorist. He will die like former Abba Kyari. Who else is noticing that zombies are scarce in this thread?

Las las nothing go happen .... we are in a military regime ,Wike given presidency 24hrs to respond joker nothing will happen .

So they didn't swear an affidavit or cannot be charged with contempt of court or the court is cowed already.

Goodluck

Crazy set of people.. If they had gone in and had assassinated her, they would have said it's UGM OR ESN.