Youths, activists, clerics and civil organisations are proposing to stage a mother of all protest against the alleged extra-judicial killing of a 17-year-old teenager, Master Innocent Kokorifa by the police.

The victim was gunned down by the Anti-Vice/Anti-Kidnapping squad of the police on August 18 along the Airforce Road, at about 11am.

Kokorifa was said to be running an errand for his mother, Pere, when he was killed in mysterious circumstances by the police.

The father of the deceased, Mr. Daniel Kokorifa, an officer of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) said his first child out of five children, was murdered in cold blood.
He said the victim who was to turn 18 on September 9 was a peacemaker, a non-smoker who had no records of criminality.

But the police in a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, Butswat Asinim, said the victim died in a gun battle between a three-man notorious armed robbery gang and the police squad.

It, was however gathered yesterday that all arrangements by different groups of people to protest the killing under the auspices of House of Justice had been concluded.

A Niger Delta activist and former Spokesman of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide, Jeremiah Owoupele, was said to be spearheading the protest.

Speaking in Yenagoa, Owoupele said the protest to demand justice from the police would be massive and peaceful.

He said women, youths from various parts of the state, members of IYC, human rights activists, lawyers and Civil Liberty Organisation (CLO) had indicated an interest to join the protest.

He described the killing of Kokorifa as unwarranted, avoidable saying it had plunged the deceased family into mourning.