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Lawrence Ajodo, a fake police officer arrested alongside 13 others for laying siege to the Abuja residence of the Supreme Court Justice, Mary Odili, has reportedly carried out the acts on other occasions with the backing of highly placed officials, Sunday PUNCH has learnt.

It was gathered that Ajodo had been involved in four similar cases of assets recovery raids on homes of some prominent citizens, including the residence of former military President, Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.).

A complement of security operatives led by Ajodo, , a fake Chief Superintendent of Police, had stormed Justice Odili’s Maitama residence on October 29, on the strength of a purported tip by a whistleblower, Aliyu Umar, who claimed to have observed suspicious activities at the Supreme Court Justice’s residence.

Ajodo, who claimed to be a consultant to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, was paraded alongside other suspects by the police on Thursday in Abuja.

Police sources said the incident had led to the arrest and detention of about nine policemen, including a Superintendent of Police, all drawn from Zone 7, Abuja.

Ajodo’s alleged accomplices include, Michael Diete-Spiff; two lawyers, Alex Onyekuru and Ernest Igwe; one Bayero Lawal; Aliyu Umar; Maimuna Maishanu; Ayodele Akindipe; Yusuf Adamu and Bashir Musa.

Others are ASP Mohammed Yahaya; a journalist, Stanley Nkwazema; Shehu Jibo; Abdullahi Adamu and a Lance Coporal simply identified as Mike.

The force spokesman, Frank Mba, had described them as “ of a well-organised criminal gang with a web-like involvement of individuals drawing from their different competences, professional background and social s in perfecting the criminal plot.”

Our correspondent gathered that the last botched raid carried out by Ajodo’s team on a purported intelligence that huge sums of money were warehoused in a building embarrassed the police leadership.

It was learnt that Ajodo used to recruit operatives from the Intelligence Response Team, Force Intelligence Bureau, and other units for assets recovery operations sanctioned by unnamed senior officials.

A senior officer stated, “Initially, he used to recruit policemen from IRT, FIB  for his raid on people’s homes but policemen stopped going with him on his assets recovery operations after the last failed operation he led at the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown in 2020.  The operations were targeted at addresses not individuals.

“He later gained some clout at the Ministry of Justice and continued his raids on homes but policemen stopped going with him after the 2020 incident which led to the detention of some officers from Zone 7.”

Items recovered from Ajodo included three vehicles, a laptop, two fake ID cards, a printer and a search warrant.

PUNCH

Naija my country. One day one drama

All these unsolicited explanations, just to cover Malami's tracks?

Who asked Una? See them trying so hard to cover things up

Case sweep under the carpet in progress…

Just like they did with lekki tollgate… Useless FG Fulani government said there was no killings.

The same FG Fulani government through the mouth piece of the CSP said Odili invasion was fake

I pity those who still have hope in this contraption..

Useless godforsaken irredeemable failed country

Ojodo the fall guy
The useful idiot must be a southerner
slaves every where.

Malami want to frustrates people efforts on this case,

Lol they're fake cops buh dem see warrant get easily from a Magistrate court at the same time them get access to Guns nd all neccessary equipment....


You people should find us anoda story...


Maybe one from Wale Adenuga and getat from here....

Damage control.


In a sane country, Malami would have been arrested, beating with 4-by-4 logs of wood and prosecuted.

But unfurtunately, I'm very sure that our darling mannequin is not even aware that Odili's house was illegally busted by his toothless bulldogs

Three vehicles recovered from a policeman who is searching people's house for stolen money.. .
But did Malami truly signed his IDcard?

Nothing new. Even the security operatives that invaded the National Assembly were denied

What of other police officers who went with him, are the fake too? What about all the Hilux van the used are the fake too? What about the court order the came with is it fake too? Am so sorry for who ever have or put hope in this country , sorry for local Yoruba Muslims who beg for unity of this country everyday, am sorry

He has been going on raids in people’s homes in Abuja including that of the former military president of Nigeria, General Abdulsalami Abubakar.

And you want us to believe that this man has been sending himself?

Malami’s head must enter this one.

Fake indeed ! how did he managed to get a search warrant from Court of law if he's doing such by himself and for himself.

This is super story.

The APC government has successfully destroyed every aspect of this nation.

Some lies that are too silly to be included in movies are being told in Nigeria by our government and politicians. I mean lies that even an imbeccile will be ashamed of telling

These people are messing with the brains of their zombies.

What's the average IQ of Nigerians?
I want to confirm something

If ajodo is fake then the judge that issue the warrant for ajodo should also be arrested. Let all of them come and explain themselves. I know our daddy is still traveling from one country to other just to make sure that the whole issue is swept under the carpet before coming back to Nigeria.

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Fake or no fake, my own be say make dem jail the man, period

We can never be too sure the extent of crime a man may commit alone.

This does not mean that he may not have some backbone in the government but let's not focus only on that aspect.

Bullshit! These people think they are talking to idiots The police, minister of justice and the Fulani cabal govt should come off this nonsense charade and tell sane people who ordered the raid on Justice Odili’s house.

LOL, these guys think sey Nigerians no dey reason ni?

Lies wey kids no fit believe na im dem dey tell adults.

Nawa o!

Many Nigerians have died in the hands of ORIGINAL POLICE and they never make the news twice.

You want to choke us with this news just because it happened to a "big woman".

Can every case get the type of attention too? Or do we all have to be Mary Odili before we get justice?

Stupid pipu

Story

Hmm