A high court sitting in Lagos has sentenced Drambi Vandi, the officer involved in the killing of Bolanle Raheem, a lawyer, to death by hanging.
The suspended police officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police Drambi Vandi, was found guilty of the Christmas day killing of Lagos property lawyer, Omobolanle.
He has now been sentenced to death by hanging for the crime.
Justice Ibironke Harrison, sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square annexe division of the Lagos State High Court, said his defence that he didn’t shoot the deceased has no leg to stand on.
He was found guilty on the strength of the witnesses of the prosecution, who gave ‘overwhelming evidence that the loud gunshot was from his loaded gun.
Mr. Vandi was arraigned on January 16, 2023, on a count of murder, but he pleaded not guilty.
The court granted an accelerated hearing on the case.
The Lagos State Government alleged that the defendant, an Assistant Superintendent of Police who has now been suspended from the Force, shot Mrs Raheem in the chest on December 25, 2022, at the Ajah Roundabout on the Lekki Motorway in Lagos State.
The crime contravenes Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
