Suspected IPOB spy, Gloria Okolie freed after nine months in police detention
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Gloria Okolie, who was arrested for allegedly being a spy for the Indigenous People of Biafra has been released from detention after perfecting her bail conditions.
The 21-year-old was released on Wednesday after being detained since June 17, 2021, by the Nigeria police.
The media had reported how Gloria was earlier detained at the IRT office in Owerri, Imo State before she was transferred to Abuja.
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on November 23, 2021 had granted bail to Okolie in the sum of N10 million with two sureties.
A rights activist and Director General, Behind Bars Initiative, Harrison Gwamnishu, had posted about Okolie’s unlawful detention on Facebook and how she was allegedly turned into a ‘maid,’ washing clothes and cooking food at the IRT office in Owerri, before she was later moved to the unit’s headquarters in Abuja.
Cash transaction slips of N220,000 allegedly collected by the policemen from Okolie’s relations were also attached to the post.
The post read in part, “21-year-old Miss Glory Okolie, who enrolled for the 2021 JAMB exam, has been in police detention since 17th June, 2021 till date. She left the house and never returned.
“Since 17th June, her family had searched for her in hospitals and mortuaries but couldn’t find her.
Ending of June 2021, a young man who was freed from the IRT office Tiger Base, Owerri, told the Okolie family that he saw Glory in the custody of IRT officers cooking and washing clothes for them.
“The family immediately went to the IRT office and requested to see Glory and bail her out and till date, it’s been one story or the other.
The IRT officers allegedly continued to extort the family and denied them access to her.
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