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Gbajabiamila Security Detail Shot Dead Newspaper Vendor In Abuja

One of the security details of Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker of the House of Representatives, on Thursday killed a resident of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
The number four citizen confirmed the incident in a personal statement on Friday.
He disclosed that the resident, a newspaper vendor, was hit by stray bullet after his security details fired shot in the air to disperse the crowd.
Narrating how the incident occurred, Gbajabiamila said he had stopped to greet newspaper vendors after he left the National Assembly only to receive a call when he got to his destination hours later that his security detail had kill one of the vendors.
The Surulere representative said it was a cordial engagement as many of them have known him since he first moved to Abuja
He recalled that after the convoy set out in continuation of movement, unidentified men obstructed it, which made the security men “shot into the air to disperse them”..
“Contrary to an earlier report by men in the convoy that they applied their security discretion to shoot in the air. I have caused a report to be made to the local police station and an investigation has commenced,” he said.
Gbajabiamila disclosed that the officer who fired the fatal shot has been suspended pending the conclusion of the inquiry.
“My value for human life and my respect for all people – irrespective of socio-economic status – is what endeared me to these vendors and these are the reasons why I stop my convoy quite often to connect with them.
“For one of them to have been shot by my security detail is horrific and I cannot begin to imagine the grief and loss Ifeanyi’s family must feel on this sad day. No family should have to go through this,” he said.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain added that he was distraught about the death and offered his sympathies to the victim’s family and Abuja vendors.
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