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Update: Wife Of Vendor Killed By Gbajabiamila’s Aide Disassociates Self From N500m Lawsuit

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The wife of the slain newspaper vendor, Ifeanyi Okereke has disassociated herself from the N500m compensation demand.

 

News Rain Nigeria gathered that Josephine Okereke, the wife of Abuja newspaper vendor, Ifeanyi Okereke killed by a security aide told newsmen on Thursday in Abuja that she was not privy to the N500 million compensation requested by the family.

She said what was paramount now is how to get justice for her late husband.

She however said that the Speaker had since reached out to the family with a promise to take care of the children.“Gbajabiamila carried my newborn child when he came to our house and said he was not a speaker when he knew my husband.”

 

Wife Of Vendor Killed By Gbajabiamila’s Aide Disassociates Self From N500m Lawsuit

 

Okereke said that what she needed at the moment is justice and not N500 million, stressing that she will never be in support of the N500 million compensation.

The bereaved wife said the speaker had done what was unexpected of someone in authority with a promise to take care of the children’s education and other needs.

She said: “I was in my house when within 10 minutes my father-in-law came from Abia, he went out along with his other son and the next day I heard that my husband’s people are demanding N500 million as compensation.

“I was shocked and asked how will they be doing that and how will the speaker help the children again with such demand.

“All I want now is that the person that killed my husband to face justice, he was the breadwinner of the family and he just secured a job with the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment.

“But COVID-19 prevented him from resuming, it was the Minister, Dr. Chris Ngige, that helped him secured the job, but since COVID-19 prevented him from resuming he went back to the vendor so as to eke a living.”

The 36-year-old mother of two said she was also a vendor when they both met in 2013 and the union had since produced two children.

It will be recalled that on November 23, a letter signed by Mike Ozekhome (SAN), counsel to Okereke’s family, had demanded a N500 million compensation from the speaker. The letter also stated that failure to comply with the N500 million demand within seven days would lead to legal action against the Speaker.

Ifeanyi Okereke, the vendor was shot in the head on Nov. 19 by a security detail attached to Gbajabiamila when the speaker’s convoy passed through the Federal Secretariat.