Glory Okolie, detained by the Intelligence Response Unit (IRT), Nigeria police for the past 74 days now has a glimmer of hope as a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Abuja has ruled that she must be charged to court by the police by August 31 or be released on bail.
Okolie, 21, has been in detention since June 17 over her alleged relationship with members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and its militant wing, the Eastern Security Network (ESN).
Earlier this week, she dragged the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, to court.
Now, a top court has made a pronouncement that she’d find cheering.
Recall the police had on Sunday, August 22, through the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Aremu Adeniran accused Okolie of “complicity in the 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”.
Her case attracted condemnation from most critics of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
The president should find a way to help the state
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