Group warns security operatives against harassing Niger Delta judiciary officials

By Isaac Olamikan

Socio-economic group, Benin Solidarity Movement (BSM) Worldwide, has warned security operatives to stop harassing Niger Deltans in the judiciary.

The group made the call in a press statement signed by its President, Ambassador Curtis Eghosa Ugbo.

The statement partly read, “Benin Solidarity Movement (BSM) Worldwide takes exception to the treatment meted out to Justice Mary Odili by some unscrupulous security operatives.

“Information that the security operatives acted based on a court order has since been denied, refuted by some of the security agencies accused of involvement.

“Of great concern to us is that Justice Odili is not the first Niger Delta son/daughter in the judiciary to be so humiliated by some shady security operatives acting on the orders of their paymasters.

“BSM will advise the shady paymasters of the security operatives to learn how to follow due process in such matters so as not to portray themselves as harbingers of evil.”

Going further, the statement read, “We are using this opportunity to send a strong warning to whoever is behind all these acts of unbridled resort to self adulation that their days in the sun are numbered. If they don’t change their style, we assure them that we will have no choice than to resort to whatever legal means that will free us from their acts of humiliating our sons and daughters.

“Any other action that we perceive to be a humiliation of any of our sons/daughters in the judiciary would be met with stiff opposition in line with the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”