
The family has also threaten to take legal action if Gbajabiamila fails to fulfill all demands in 7 days.
The family of Ifeanyichukwu Okereke, a newspaper vendor who was shit dead died by a security aide attached to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has demanded N500m in a letter addressed to the Speaker.
According to the letter dated November 23, 2020 and signed by Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), legal representative of the family, Gbajabiamila is being asked to adequately compensate the family over the death of the victim.
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In a report by Punch, Ozekhome 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 Department of State Services had last week arrested the operative, Abdullahi Hassan, who shot Okereke while Gbajabiamila had also visited the family of the deceased and promised to ensure that they do not suffer.
However, the family demanded more, adding that nothing could bring back the dead vendor back to life.
“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 family said.
The family also asked the Speaker to ensure that the safety of vendors is guaranteed as they had become afraid to return to the streets since the tragic incident.
The Okereke family said it would take legal action against Gbajabiamila if all the demands are not met within seven days.
“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.
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