The police have arrested a 22-year-old woman in connection with the series of attacks on security formations and other critical national infrastructure in the South-East.
The Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Aremu Adeniran, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, on Sunday.
The statement read that the suspect was arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Police Force, in collaboration with the military and other security agencies.
It stated that the suspect was arrested over her alleged complicity in the series of coordinated attacks on national infrastructure and killing of security operatives in the South-East.
According to it, the suspect was arrested following investigations and implementation of Operation Restore Peace.
The ORP was aimed at breaking the information, drugs and arms supply chain to the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra and its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network.
The statement added that police investigations revealed that the suspect was a member of IPOB/ESN in Imo, working closely with a male suspect believed to be one of the ESN commanders.
The male suspect had been declared wanted by the police for his alleged lead role in the attacks.
The arrest of the female suspect and the revelations from her confession, the statement read, assisted the police in the arrest of the male suspect.
“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 delivers 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,” it read.
It stated that the suspect would be arraigned in court as soon as investigation into the matter was concluded.
