21 months after, NDLEA abandons family of toddler killed by operatives in Delta

Nearly two years after the killing of a two-year-old toddler, Ivan Omorhiakogbe, and the shooting of his younger brother, Omorhiakogbe Eromonsele by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in Delta State, the family is yet to get justice.

DAILY POST reports that stray bullets from the NDLEA operatives shot the duo, resulting in the death of the elder brother, Ivan Omorhiakogbe, while his one-year-old sibling, Omorhiakogbe Eromonsele, was shot in his left eye.

DAILY POST also recalls that the duo were shot at their mother’s shop on Thursday, July 13, 2023, during a raid for drug peddlers in the Okpanam area of Delta State by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.

Four months after the incident, precisely on November 5, 2023, the Delta State Government and the authorities of the agency disclosed the plan to fly the one-year-old Omorhiakogbe Eromonsele to the United States of America for treatment.

DAILY POST, however, gathered that 21 months after the incident, the young Omorhiakogbe Eromonsele, had not been flown to the USA for treatment nor compensation paid to the family for the killing of the
two-year-old, Ivan Omorhiakogbe.

Speaking on the incident as one of the petitions before his committee, Senator Neda Imasuen described the N20 million offer to be paid as compensation to the family by the authorities of the NDLEA as unacceptable.

Imasuen, representing, Edo South senatorial district and a member of the Labour Party, who spoke during a media chat with members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, said the upper chamber of the national assembly would not accept anything less than N100 million from NDLEA as compensation for the family