Post-election violence: Court awards N10m to victim's widow

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has awarded the sum of N10 million as compensation to a Nigerian widow, Mrs Dorcas Afolalu as a result of the post presidential violence that claimed the life of her husband, Mr Felix Afolalu in Kaduna in 2011.

The court's judgment came three years after late Afolalu of the Kaduna Polytechnic was gruesomely murdered by rioters during the political violence which greeted the announcement of the results of the 2011 presidential election in several parts of the North of the country.

The judgment delivered by the ECOWAS court was sequel to a $2million suit slammed against the Federal Government by Afolalu's widow through her lawyer, Mr. Sola Egbeyinka of the Falana & Falana's Chambers for the unlawful killing of her husband on April 18, 2011.