The upper chamber also commended the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, for making arrests and constituting a panel to investigate the raid and urged the Police Inspector-General to make public, all findings.
She said: “The Senate is worried that this incident, brings back to mind the similar invasion of homes of some senior judicial officers, including chief judges of the Supreme Court, and judges of the Federal High Court in Abuja and other parts of the country in October 2016, which was widely condemned.
Senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, who chairs the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, said no member of the upper chamber “was at ease hearing the news of what happened.” Senator George Thompson Sekibo , on his part, recalled that the Port Harcourt residence of Justice Mary Odili was invaded a couple of months ago.