The family of late Ifeanyi Okereke, the paper seller who was murdered by a stray bullet terminated by a security detail appended...
to Speaker of the House of Assembly, Femi Gbajabiamila, are requesting N500 million compensation from the speaker.
DSS Officer, Abdullahi Hassan, joined to the speaker, shot to scatter paper merchants who assembled around the speaker last Thursday, November 19, with one bullets hitting Ifeanyi who kicked the bucket immediately.
In a letter composed by their legal counselor, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) and dated today November 24, the group of late Ifeanyi asked Gbajabiamila to guarantee that Hassan is completely arraigned. Ozekhome was given the command to compose the letter by the dad of the late, Okorie Okereke; and the more youthful sibling to the perished, Destiny Okereke.
The letter read in part
“Our clients have instructed us to make from your good self, the following modest demands: That you use your good offices to ensure the immediate prosecution of your security aide (Abdullahi Hassan), who went on a frolic of his own, clearly acted outside the purview of his duty and responsibility by shooting to death an innocent, harmless and armless citizen.
That you adequately compensate the Okereke family with a modest sum of N500m only. This monetary demand can never adequately replace or take the place of their son, husband, brother, and breadwinner’s life. But it will at least mitigate the obvious trauma and hardship the premature demise of their irreplaceable breadwinner has placed on them.”
The Okereke family gave the Speaker a seven-day final offer to fulfill their needs else they would make a lawful move against him
“Take note therefore that it is our clients’ firm instruction that in the event that you fail, refuse and/or neglect to accede to or proffer reasonable compensatory terms to our above modest demands within seven days from the date of this letter, we shall without any further correspondences from us, take appropriate legal steps to enforce our clients’ constitutional rights” the letter stated.
