River State police to pay N50M For Murder

River State High court sitting in Port Harcourt has ordered the Nigeria police to pay the sum of N50 million as compensation to the family of Daniel Chibuike- ikeagwuchi popular called Sleek, who was killed by cops in the River state.

The family of sleek had pressed enforcement of fundamental Human Rights against the Nigeria police, the inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Adamu, the state commissioner of police, joseph mukan, and two other policemen for killing their son, sleek.

It would be recalled that two operatives of Nigeria Police had killed sleek around Eleme, Eleme local Government Area of the state on the 19th of september 2020, for an unknown reason resulting to protests by the family of the victim and civio society organization.

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The family had on four grounds probably the court to declare the killing of their son unlawful and award the sum of N1 billion as compensation to the family of the victim.

However, in two of the courts sittings the defendants neither appeared nor not filed response, but only appeared in court on the last adjourned, 23rd November, to present a counter affidavit against the four prayers of the claimant, The court refused following the arguement by the claimant counsel.