The last may not have been heard about 21-year-old female suspect, Gloria Okolie, detained by Nigerian Police since June 17 this year.
The latest according to the security agency is that she is being held in police custody for alledged complicity in series of deliberate and well-coordinated attacks on security formations, other critical national infrastructure including INEC offices and killing of security operatives in the South-Eastern part of the country.
Recall that news making the round about the lady days ago was that she is being unlawfully detained and turned into a ‘maid,’ washing clothes and cooking food at the Intelligence Response Team, IRT office in Owerri since her arrest as a bait to get a member of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, IPOB.
Information made available to journalists credited to Deputy Public Relations Officer, CSP Aremu Adeniran indicated that police investigations disclosed that Gloria Okolie is a member of IPOB/ESN in Imo State who worked closely with one Benjamin Uzoma Emojiri a.k.a “Onye Army”, one of the ESN commanders earlier declared wanted by the Police for his lead roles in planning, coordinating and executing the attack on the Imo State Police Command Headquarters and Imo State Headquarters of the Nigerian Correctional Service.
However, the police say her arrest and the revelations from her confession, assisted the Police in the arrest of “Onye Army”, a major breakthrough in the quest to restoring law and order in the South-East region.
Also the Deputy Spokesperson said, “Further investigations by the Police team revealed that Gloria Okolie takes advantage of her gender and seemingly innocuous looks as camouflage to carry out espionage against military and police targets on behalf of IPOB/ESN. The suspect also serves as an intermediate person, who receives cash, drugs and weapons on behalf of IPOB/ESN and deliver same to their commanders in their camps. Through her clandestine criminal activities, she actively aided and abetted the multiple acts of murder, arson and malicious damage to both private and public property by the ESN. A lot of the deadly and unfortunate attacks on security personnel and assets, with numerous fatalities, have the imprimaturs of Gloria Okolie, the spy girl of ESN militants. Investigation is being concluded to enable the Police arraign her in court for prosecution.
However this development has again attracted more reactions as observers are querying Police response to the continuing detention of Gloria.
The Chairman of NBA-SPIDEL who was once the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ikeja Branch, Monday Ubani is threatening legal action for the enforcement of Gloria’s right.
He particularly wondered why the Police had to wait this long before coming out with their position.
According to him, the Police should either release or charge her to court with immediate effect.
