LUGBE:

Try to understand too, the speaker requested for securities and it was granted so he will take charge of them while under him.

Have you asked yourself while police withdrew security men attached to some Nigerians recently after the SARS protest.

The family can sue whoever they want including the speaker, they can even join the security outfit.

So legally,that is how it works.

LUGBE:

Try to understand too, the speaker requested for securities and it was granted so he will take charge of them while under him. - This is an assumption. His office as speaker officially has security aides assigned to it and while he may give them stipends, he does not take charge of them as they are not under him but the DSS.



Have you asked yourself while police withdrew security men attached to some Nigerians recently after the SARS protest.- They withdrew them to boost the number of security personnel available to police the volatile environs in endSars aftermath. I don't understand how this is relevant to our discourse.

The family can sue whoever they want including the speaker, they can even join the security outfit.
- This is absolutely correct. However, the courts also reserve the right to throw out any suit that lacks legal merit.

So legally,that is how it works.- Not so sure abt this as it reads to me more like, "So emotionally, that is how it works"

complexBoss12:


I had to consult my dictionary to see if there is a new meaning to magnanimity. For you eh, when your security operative kills a man, while on duty, howbeit unjustly, and you reach out to the family, then you are being generous abi??
that's slave mentality bro!! its a responsibility/an obligation, not a favour.

Even when plane crash happens, the airline pays victims families huge sums of money. It's not out of order to ask for money from him, because the security man is his responsibility and there is no other way he can compensate them. abi he give them another son and father??

I will ignore your second paragraph, because if I want to address it, I go chop ban. Nonsense and gbajabiamila!

Attit:
It is a pity most people do not know their rights in Nigeria. Ordinary 500million naira and people sre saying the family is greedy. Lol. They have not even asked enough. Just imagine the comments up here. You can see that most Nigerian are under bondage,.yet they do not know. If Gbajamila himself is shot dead, how much will his family ask? So,.going to see the family of the deceased is an act of kindness. Chai! Nigerians have being turned to zombies. What a pity.

Alxmyr:
Hmmm. If the father of the deceased can afford the service of Mike Ozekhome, what was the son doing selling newspapers on the streets then?

TheLionofLasigi:
I've always said that Nigerians like leaders who don't give them face, is it buhari you want to be sueing, assuming he gave them the buhari treatment all this one no fit happen,...but because someone showed compassion it's now a business venture. Sue the DSS if it sure for una.

Ajibel:
Can you just imagine profiting from the death of their son

YorubaMod:

You be big fool

DragonFire442:


When you look into the mirror, smile and call yourself a big Fool

You are free to call your family members a bigger fool..... they deserve it

EngrXrix:
while I don't wish this on him cuz I'm actually a fan, it's also good what is happening, He is paying the price for the reckless behaviour of the nigerian security outfit. I hope this motivates him enough to drive for a true reform in the security sector.

YorubaMod:

Your stupidity won't allow you see the foolishness in you , u can ask people around you.

Saao:
lol so who indirectly killed him?

Family demands N500m from Gbajabiamila over vendor’s death


The family of Ifeanyichukwu Okereke, a vendor who died after being shot by a security aide to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has written a letter to the Speaker, demanding N500m.

This is according to a letter dated November 23, 2020, signed by the lawyer of the family, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN).

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.
https://punchng.com/family-demands-n500m-from-gbajabiamila-over-vendors-death/?amp=1&utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true

Akfrenzy:
shut up maga ,if ur untamed dog killed someone ,who should people hold responsible

Kekereekun123:
lawyers take up certain cases for free and will collect a percentage of the settlement. Thats how its done worldwide. Mr mike is also a pdp lawyer and wants to knock apc

Dijita:


You are right on. I am not a lawyer but I think a competent lawyer would have done things behind the scene instead of advertising it in the open. The fact that your child was just killed in the hand of people that suppose to protect him bring you goodwill but when the first thing was to be asking for money you loose goodwill. Courtesy and good manner require Femi Gbaja.. to pay visit and empathized with the family but no law require him to do anything. They have shut down anything the speaker could have done out of the generosity of his heart and turn it into an adversarial relationship when they engaged a PDP lawyer to demand money from him. If they had work behind the scene with independent or APC lawyer they would have had Gbaja in their corner demanding higher compensation for them from the federal government who is the actual employer of the culprit.

As for those saying #500M is too much, there is no amount of money that can buy human life. The man was a newspaper vendor today he could become a LG chairman tomorrow or be the father of Nigeria future president or the grand father to America future president.

chuksjuve:
I think he's paying for the consequences of having an overzealous security escort and orderly!

Until these VIPS begin to caution the excess of their escorts, they should be ready to bear the consequences of their actions..

Libatine:
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complexBoss12:


I had to consult my dictionary to see if there is a new meaning to magnanimity. For you eh, when your security operative kills a man, while on duty, howbeit unjustly, and you reach out to the family, then you are being generous abi??
that's slave mentality bro!! its a responsibility/an obligation, not a favour.

Even when plane crash happens, the airline pays victims families huge sums of money. It's not out of order to ask for money from him, because the security man is his responsibility and there is no other way he can compensate them. abi he give them another son and father??

I will ignore your second paragraph, because if I want to address it, I go chop ban. Nonsense and gbajabiamila!

Kekereekun123:
lawyers take up certain cases for free and will collect a percentage of the settlement. Thats how its done worldwide. Mr mike is also a pdp lawyer and wants to knock apc

DragonFire442:


You sound so smart to yourself and dumb people like you.

You are demented

ehinmowo:



Perhaps you could learn from this. In case you have a potential Case that could yield money. You can lobby any lawyer for free. I.e "I will give you 30% of the money that comes out of it.

Ozekhome's chamber charges 90m. So 30 or 50% is quiet sufficient. Besides, a human right case. A thing that makes Ozekhome happy.

YorubaMod:

Really? U can kiss my ass, you have nothing sensible to offer.