There is a new twist in the saga of the late Abuja Vendor, Ifeanyichukwu Okereke, who was slain by a security detail of Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila right in his convoy.

Okereke was shot point blank and at a close range after he and some of his colleagues who were familiar with the Speaker  had been dashed some money after they hailed him as usual.

Whereas, the Speaker had shown empathy to the family over the tragic development and turning over the culprit, Mr Abdullahi Hassan,  to his employers, the DSS for appropriate punishment  in addition to announcing the setting up of an Education Trust Fund to cater to the education of Okereke’s two children.

The Okereke family is demanding a N500 million compensation from Gbajabiamila.

Their lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) in a letter dated November 23, 2020, on behalf of the family said, “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.

Ozekhome further stated in the letter, to wit: “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.”