The late Ifeanyi Okereke’s family who was killed by a State Security Service officer attached to Femi Gbajabiamila are demanding N500m compensation from the Speaker.
Jomog News Nigeria reports that the family of late Ifeanyi Okereke, the newspaper vendor who was killed by a stray bullet fired by a State Security Service (SSS) officer attached to Speaker of the House of Assembly, Femi Gbajabiamila, are demanding N500 million compensation from the speaker.
The family lawyer, Mike Ozekhome has written a letter dated November 23 on behalf of the family to Mr Gbajabiamila, asking him to ensure that the security aide, Abdullahi Hassan is fully prosecuted. The family also gave the speaker seven days to fulfil their demand or face legal action.
The lawyer was given the mandate to write the letter by the father of the deceased, Okorie Okereke and the younger brother to the deceased, 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 ultimatum to meet their demands otherwise they would take legal action 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 added.
