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#EndSARS: Ex-Finance Minister, Nenadi Usman demands N5bn over murder of niece
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By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
Former Minister of Finance, Senator Nenadi Usman, on yesterday, approached the Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, and other Units of the Nigeria Police Force, sitting in Abuja, to seek redress for the extra-judicial murder of her niece, Miss Anita Akapson, by a trigger-happy police officer in 2018.
31-year old Miss Akapson was shot at close range by a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Godwin Wagozie, on October 13, 2018.
The Police initially claimed that the deceased who had just returned to Nigeria after her graduation from Kent University in the United Kingdom, was killed in a case of mistaken identity. It stated that an officer shot her because he thought she was an armed robber that was escaping from the scene of a crime.
A former Minister of Finance, Senator Nenadi Usman on Monday asked for ₦5 billion from the police over the killing of her niece in October 2018.
Usman, who is a joint petitioner in the case of alleged extra-judicial killing, told the National Human Rights Commission Independent Investigative Panel that her niece was murdered extra-judicially by a police officer in the Katampe area of Abuja.
Lawyer to the police, James Idachaba, however, argued that the police have played its part by dismissing the said officer and ensuring his eventual conviction by an Abuja High Court which sentenced him to sixteen years imprisonment.
Another petitioner also told the panel how he paid ₦2 million to secure his freedom after the police allegedly withdrew ₦1.4 million while he was in detention.
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Twitter Nigeria is tired of ex-Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode sharing photos of different women.
The politician had over the weekend attended a wedding ceremony and then shared photos with Mrs Nkeiruka Onyejeocha. This however didn t go down well with twitter users who called him out for always sharing photos with women.
Just recently FFK and his wife, Precious Chikwendu went their separate ways, The former minister has also been married more than twice and was recently linked with an Egyptian lady who called off their relationship on social media some days ago.
Sharing the photos, he wrote;