Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the House of Representatives, has visited the home of Ifeanyi Okereke, a newspaper vendor who was shot by his security aide last week Thursday.
During his visit to the late vendor’s residence at Kwata area of Madalla-Suleja, Niger state, Gbajabiamila said Okereke’s family has become his responsibility and that he has instructed his lawyers to set up a trust fund for the children.
“Those children have now become my children. I have made commitments to the family to train them until they become adults,” he said.
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“The incident has touched me in no small measure and in ways difficult for anyone to understand. I am a man of peace and not violence.”
Gbajabiamila also visited the association of vendors in Abuja to condole with them on the death of their colleague and to assure them that Okereke will get justice.
