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Speaker Gbajabiamila meets with Newspaper vendors in Abuja over Okereke’s dead

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The Speaker said the House of Representatives would pay tribute to late Okereke on Tuesday.

Okereke was allegedly killed by one of Gbajabiamila’s security aides on Thursday.

 

Leaders of the distributors and distributors, in their separate speeches, noted that Gbajabiamila had always identified with them on the streets of Abuja, stating that the protests by them were not against the Speaker but to seek justice for Okereke.

 

The Speaker had earlier on Saturday visited the family of the slain newspaper vendor in the Madalla/Suleja area of Niger State.

 

It was learnt that the shooting happened when Okereke and other street vendors selling on the Shehu Shagari Way, Three Arms Zone, flocked around the convoy of the Speaker, who was said to be in the habit of giving out money anytime he passed them.

 

Gbajabiamila later confirmed that the security aide who shot the victim is an operative of the Department of State Services.

 

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