THE family of Ifeanyi Okereke, the vendor killed by a security aide of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, is demanding N500 million compensation from the speaker.
Okereke was shot by an operative of the Department of State Services (DSS), Abdullahi Hassan, who was one of the security aides of the speaker last Thursday.
Hassan has since been withdrawn from the speaker’s security crew.
Gbajabiamila subsequently handed him over to the DSS, which has promised to ensure justice is served.
The speaker also visited the family of the deceased and promised to ensure that they do not suffer. He promised to sponsor the education of Okereke’s children until they become adults.
However, in a letter dated November 23 and addressed to the speaker by counsel to the Okereke family, Mike Ozekhome, the family demanded more.
The Okereke family noted that though their son’s death can not be quantified, the monetary demand would mitigate the trauma and hardship his death has placed on them.
“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,” Ozekhome wrote.
“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 attorney said if the speaker fails to accede to their demand in seven days, they would take legal steps.
“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,” he said.
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