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IPOB spy-girl in Imo gets her cover burned in Abuja
In the effort to break information, weapon, and financial supply fuelling IPOB crisis in the southeast, the police and the military on Operation Restore Peace made a big hit recently.
The Deputy Force Public Relations Officer (DFPRO), Mr Aremu Adeniran disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Sunday.
He said a female suspect working as a spy for the group was arrested.
And she has volunteered lots of useful information—including intelligence on a male kingpin she worked with—that has been helping in the conduct of the operation.
The 22-year-old woman, Gloria Okolie, confessed she had been the drug, money, weapon mule IPOB and ESN has been using in planning and launching attacks on security installations in Imo.
But she was nabbed in Abuja.
“Further investigations by the police revealed that the female suspect took advantage of her gender and seemingly innocuous look to carry out espionage against security personnel 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,” he said.
Through her clandestine criminal activities, the police authorities insisted, the outlawed group was able to pull off multiple acts of murder, arson and malicious damage to both private and public property.
IPOB has yet to respond, but when it eventually does, it will certainly distance itself from the spy girl.
Adeniran said she will be arraigned as soon as the investigation ends.
