{"id":37511,"date":"2021-12-15T20:25:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T19:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=37511"},"modified":"2021-12-15T20:25:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T19:25:59","slug":"at-last-police-dock-justice-mary-odilis-house-invaders-on-18-count-criminal-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=37511","title":{"rendered":"At last, Police dock Justice Mary Odili&#8217;s house invaders on 18 count criminal charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>Yemi Oyeyemi<\/strong>, Abuja.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Inspector General of Police IGP on Wednesday evening arraigned 15 suspects believed to have participated in the October 29 invasion of the Abuja residence of a Supreme Court Justice, Mary Peter Odili.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was noted that the defendants comprised two senior lawyers, Alex Onyekuru and Igwe Ernest, a senior journalist, Mr Stanley Nkwazema, as well as a housewife, Hajia Memunat Maisanu.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were put on trial on 18-count charges at the federal high court in Abuja.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the defendants who were brought to court under heavy security by police operatives however denied all the charges slammed on them.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The defendants are Adjodo Lawrence, Michael Diete-Spiff, Barrister Alex Onyekuru, Bayero Lawal (aka Director of EFCC), Barrister Igwe Ernest, Aliyu Umar Ibrahim, Hajiya Maimuna Maishanu and Dr. Ayodele Akindipe (aka Herbalist).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rest are Yusuf Adamu (aka godson to Chief Peter Odili), Bashir Musa, Assistant Superintendent of Police ASP,&nbsp; Mohammed Yahaya, Stanley Nkwazema, Shehu Jibo, Abdullahi Adamu and Abdullahi Usman.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other suspects are said to be on the run<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time of this report, the defendants through their respective lawyers were battling with bail applications before Justice Nkeonye Evelyn Maha who took their plea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yemi Oyeyemi, Abuja. The Inspector General of Police IGP on Wednesday evening arraigned 15 suspects believed to have participated in the October 29 invasion of the Abuja residence of a Supreme Court Justice, Mary Peter Odili. It was noted that the defendants comprised two senior lawyers, Alex Onyekuru and Igwe Ernest, a senior journalist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":36510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4346,1055,234],"class_list":["post-37511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-dock","tag-odili","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}