Two of the leading members of the October 2020 #Endsars protest in Lagos State, Ms. Serah Ibrahim and Princess Banke Oniru, are at loggerheads over the N100m gift to leaders of the protesters.
In a letter, Ibrahim accused Princess Oniru of insincerity and bare-faced lies and threatened court action.
Ibrahim said, “I will not waste my time asking for retractions and apologies for the lies you have tweeted to deliberately harm me. I will surely sue you, and we will both have our day before the law court of the land. Nothing you can say now in heaven or on earth can change that decision.”
Oniru had, in a tweet, accused Ibrahim of collecting more than N100m from Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s proxy.
Oniru had said in a tweet, “l remember (Adeshina Ademola) Ogunlana calling me about the 100 million naira evil compensation, and we had a meeting at his chamber @AjayiWizeman was in that meeting where we rejected it. Days later we got information that some emergency activist took the 100 million we rejected. Fake activists.”
“To the above, you (Oniru) tweeted, thus: “The money pass 100m sef”.
In the letter to Oniru, Ibrahim narrated how she got involved in the governor’s N100m compensation for the victims, which had been offered in the belief that it was from the governor’s private purse and that the true victims would not be short-changed.
She said several meetings were held with the governor’s proxy and the victims, during which the purpose and sharing of the money were discussed and agreed upon. After that, she said, the money was released in two tranches of N50m and accordingly transferred to the victims.
She said Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, was fully briefed, adding that neither Falana nor Mr. Olumide Yinka-Fusika, SAN, who represented the protesters under Falana’s direction, charged or collected one kobo for their services.
