The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has revealed the identity of his security aide who allegedly shot dead a newspaper vendor on Thursday in Abuja.
Gbajabiamila, who said the incident had left him “deeply shaken”, gave the name of the officer as Abdullahi M. Hassan.
The Speaker said Abdullahi M. Hassan is an officer of the Department of State Services (DSS). The Victim was shot in the head according to eyewitness accounts.
The State Security Service (SSS), self-styled as the Department of State Services (DSS), is a security agency of Nigeria and one of three successor organisations to the National Security Organization (NSO). Earlier, NewsWireNGR had reported that the Nigerian Police denied its officer was responsible for the shooting that left the vendor dead.
Read the statement issued Friday and signed by the Speaker below.
Earlier today, (Friday) , Newspapers vendors in the Federal Capital Territory on Friday protested the killing of their colleagues, Ifeanyi Elechi, who was shot dead on Thursday by a security aide to the Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila.
The vendors who were carrying placards, demanded justice, insisting that the errant operative who is believed to be a Department of State Services operative must be brought to book.
Chairman of the Newspapers Vendors Association in FCT, Etim Eteng, said the association would not allow the matter to be “swept under the carpet.”
According to him, the vendor’s death was not the result of accidental gunfire or stray bullets, noting that he was shot point-blank by the unidentified security officer, stressing that there were witnesses at the scene.
Eteng stated, “We are gathered here today to demand justice for Elechi who was killed extra-judicially. Extrajudicial killing means the killing of an individual by a security operative without judicial proceedings and this is what has happened. The vendors association through their legal adviser are demanding justice.
“The overzealous security operative who killed Elechi must be brought to book; he must face the wrath of the law. We know that over time, judicial killings have been swept under the carpet but this time, the death of this innocent man who left his wife and new-born baby to look for his daily bread and was killed by an aide to the Speaker of the House of Reps must be probed and the killer brought to book.
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