Police Officer Who Killed Lagos Lawyer, Bolanle, Condemned To Death

By Adesina Soyooye

An Assistant Superintendent of Police, Drambi Vandi, has been condemned to death by hanging.

ASP Vandi was condemned to death, by hanging, on Monday for the shooting to death of a Lagos-based Lawyer, Mrs Omobolanle Raheem.

Raheem was in the company of her husband, daughter and a couple of other family members on Christmas day, December 25, 2022, when ASP Vande inexplicably shot into their car and killed her at a Police check point on the allegation that the driver did not stop fast enough when the car was flagged down.

At the time of her killing, she was about four months pregnant.

Raheem’s murder sparked outrage nationwide and a strong protest by the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA.

On Monday, Justice Ibironke Harrison of the Lagos High Court, who sits at the Tafawa Balewa Square Annex Division of the Lagos High Court said Vandi’s defence that he was not the one who shot Raheem is a cock and bull story.

Vandi was found guilty on the one count charge based on what the Judge described as an “overwhelming circumstantial evidence”

Vandi, who was his own witness, denied Raheem’s killing, and insisted that the loud noise heard was not a gunshot but a fire cracker.