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THE GLORIA OKON STORY⠀
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On April 22, 1985, one Gloria Okon, whose real name was Chinyere, was about to board a Nigeria Airways flight at the Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano when she was apprehended and arrested with substances suspected to be heroin which weighed...
...about 57 grammes and other drugs as well as local and foreign currencies.⠀
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Gloria Okon was said to be a drug courier for Babangida and his wife. In an exclusive interview with Sahara Reporters published on June 8, 2009, Dr. Taiyemiwo Ogunade described the event thus...
“Gloria Okon is actually Chinyere, that’s her real name. She married Charles "Jeff" Chandler, the fellow who killed Nzeogwu. Chinyere, Maryam, and Princess Atta were young friends who hung out together. They all married into the military because the military was a proud and...
...respectable profession then. Charles Chandler, who was Tiv, married Chinyere who I think is from Imo State.⠀
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"IBB married Maryam from Asaba and Mamman Vatsa married Princess. So Chinyere became a widow and resorted to trading between the UK and Nigeria.
And then she was caught with drugs; Mamman Vatsa was the person who put Chinyere on the next available flight from Kano to London – and then claimed that she was dead by parading a dead woman picked out of the mortuary.
Dele Giwa later found out that she was in London having delivered a baby by another man.⠀
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"He sent a French photographer to the place and they saw Maryam Babangida at the event. Kayode Soyinka brought back the photographs.
Dele was sitting across the table from Kayode examining the photos taken of “Gloria Okon” (Chinyere, Chandler’s wife) at the naming ceremony in London. Maryam Babangida was there.”
After the whole ruse, Buhari, on August 5, 1985, set up an inquiry to investigate the arrest and death of Gloria Okon. The report of the investigation was expected to be brought in at the end of the month, but it was a fruitless journey.
It never saw the light of the day as Buhari was toppled by Ibrahim Babangida in a military coup 22 days later on August 27, 1985.⠀
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So end of the investigation, end of the case. #HistoryVille⠀
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