A Federal Capital Territory High Court, presided over by Justice Adeyemi Ajayi, has granted some mandatory orders to help Glory Okolie get the sum of N60 million earlier awarded to her by the FCT High Court presided over by Justice Haliyu.
Justice Haliyu had on June 23, 2022, granted every relief sought in Okolie’s favour, and awarded a sum of N60 million in punitive and general damages caused to her by the police.
The police, however, defied the court’s order despite several letters and official representations written to the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, by Okolie’s lawyer, which were not attended to, leading her counsel to take the matter to court for enforcement of the judgement.
Miss Okolie was arrested on June 17, 2021, the day she sat for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam in Owerri for being a spy for her boyfriend who is a suspected member of the Indigenous People of Biafra.
Okolie was later transferred to Abuja, where she was later accused of being a member of the IPOB/Eastern Security Network, and forced to wash and cook for the IRT officers.
Relatives had searched for her in hospitals and mortuaries for over two months until a man, who was released from prison informed them that he saw her in the IRT custody, cooking and washing clothes for the officers.
On November 23, 2021, a Federal High Court in Abuja granted bail to Okolie in the sum of N10 million with two sureties, but she regained her freedom on March 23, 2022, after perfecting her bail condition.
Following her release, Okolie filed a fundamental rights enforcement case against the police which was supported by more than 51 civil society groups.
