The family of late Ifeanyi Okereke, the newspaper vendor who was killed by a stray bullet fired by a security detail attached to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, have demanded N500 million compensation from the speaker.
In a letter written by their lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, SAN, and dated November 23, the family of the late Ifeanyi asked Gbajabiamila to ensure that the security aide, Abdullahi Hassan is fully prosecuted.
In the letter,they also requested for N 500m compensation, and Ozekhome, said he has the mandate of the father of the deceased, Okorie Okereke, and his younger brother, Destiny Okereke, to make the demand
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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.
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“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
