Apo Six: 16 years after, victims' families say justice not yet served, demand N200m compensation

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Mr Nzelu also pleaded with the panel to make an order compelling the federal government to upgrade the N3 million compensation already paid and received by the affected families to N200 million per family.

He said the N200 million demand as compensation for each of the families of the deceased as raised by their lawyer, Amobi Nzelu, cannot replace the lost souls. He said the victims were all breadwinners of their families.The five young men and a female were murdered in Apo, a satellite town in Abuja, by police officers on the night of June 7, and the morning of June 8, 2005.

The police had reportedly claimed that the victims were members of an armed robbery gang that allegedly opened fire on the officers when accosted at the Gimbiya checkpoint. In March, Mr Nzelu demanded fresh compensation for the families of the deceased before an 11-man judicial panel of inquiry and restitution for victims of SARS related abuses at the FCT.

 

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