The Pan Niger Delta forum (PANDEF) has called on the international community not to remain indifferent to the oppressive actions of the Nigerian government against its citizens.
PANDEF also called on all well-meaning and patriotic Nigerians to rise in unison and condemn these atrocious actions against citizens by the Federal Government and its agents.
This call is coming on the heels of the raid on the Abuja residence of Supreme Court Justice Mary Odili.
In a statement issued on Saturday evening by Ken Robinson, the National Publicity Secretary of PANDEF, it stated that the government should therefore offer a public apology to the nation’s judiciary, as well as, to the honorable justice.
The statement reads: “It is significant to note that Justice Mary Odili is the second most senior justice of the Supreme Court. Nigeria is not an animal kingdom and we cannot afford to let it plummet to that state.
“The raid, in the dusk hours of Friday, is not only crude and primitive but barbaric and dictatorial. It is another attempt by agentsof the Buhari administration to further intimidate and humiliate the nation’s judiciary. And this one of such actions too many, against persons of Southern extraction, particularly, persons from the South-South geopolitical zone.
“It was in the same nefarious manner that the Abuja residence of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, was invaded in January 2019, which was considered by many as part of political machinations, leading to the 2019 general elections. Justice Walter Onnoghen was later suspended, made to face a ‘kangaroo’ trial over trumped-up charges and was forced to retire.
“Earlier, in 2016, the DSS or SSS, in a gestapo manner, raided the homes of John Okoro and Sylvester Ngwuta, who is now deceased, alongside the residences of Adeniyi Ademola, and Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
“We implore President Muhammadu Buhari to stop actions that are capable of thwarting the nation’s democracy, for prosaic and political intentions. Those who ordered and carried out the scatological invasion of the home of Justice Mary Odili must be identified and punished appropriately.”
