Terrible news every time in Nigeria. Yesterday, a newspaper vendor was gunned down and killed by the security aide of speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila in Abuja.
According to reports, Ifeanyi Okereke and his wife have a newborn. According to an eyewitness, he/she says Femi called the newspaper vendors to give them some cash and without any reason, a trigger happy security aide shot at one of the newspaper vendors.
According to another eyewitness, the security aide shot at one of the newspaper vendors out of irritation; while he and other security aides were trying to clear the road due to heavy traffic. Late mr. Ifeanyi was rushed to the National Hospital where he died in the late hours of Thursday. He was shot in the head.
Video below:
Femi Gbajabiamila’s security shot a newspaper vendor and drove off. This leaders are so Heartless. Let it go viral 💔💔💔
pic.twitter.com/cI9Jh20wHI— KOBZ ❼ (@Mistakobz) November 20, 2020
Taking to his Twitter page, Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila reacted to the incident that occurred in Abuja yesterday, his tweets read:
“A horrible incident has taken place. This evening as I left the National Assembly, I stopped as usual to exchange pleasantries with the newspaper vendors at the corner. Many of them have known me since I first moved to Abuja and it was a friendly exchange.
“Unfortunately, after the convoy set out in continuation of movement, unidentified men obstructed the convoy which got the attention of security men in the convoy who shot in the air to disperse them.
“Some hours later, after getting to our destination, it was brought to my attention that someone was hit by a stray bullet, contrary to an earlier report by men in the convoy that they applied their security discretion to shoot in the air.
In the meantime; the officer who fired the fatal shot has been suspended from the convoy pending the conclusion of the investigation.”
