CITIZENS COMPASS- MORE facts are beginning to emerge over the killing of a female lawyer, Bolanle Raheem who was allegedly shot dead by A KILLER COP IN Ajah area of Lagos State.
Recall that the deceased was expectant when she was cut in her prime on 2022 Christmas Day.
A police officer, Sunday Akagu has testified before the Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square as the sixth prosecution witness in the trial of the Assistant Superintendent of Police Drambi Vandi charged with the killing of Bolanle.
Akagu, an inspector who has spent over 20 years in the police, said his colleague asked for a bullet to replace his own because it was not complete after the shooting.
“In the process of going to the police station, Vandi called me by my nickname and said, ‘Odogwu, help me with one ammunition’ and I said ‘no, where will I have it to replace it? Why will I give you my ammunition?’ And I got provoked and told my colleagues what he requested.”
When the state Attorney-General, Moyosore Onigbanjo, asked if he obliged his colleague’s request, “No, over my dead body,” the witness replied.
Akagu said he and three other colleagues were patrolling on December 25 at the Ajah area when they received a distress call from their divisional boss to come to the office.
“It was at the Budo hospital, where we met the defendant and asked what happened and he said ‘let’s discuss it at the station’,” he said.
“Then the DPO ordered us to take the defendant to the station.”
He said that five of them visited the hospital – “the driver, three of us at the back and the driver and one person close to the driver.”
The officer also said he was tense when he heard that his colleague “fired”.
Under cross-examination from the defendant’s lawyer, Adetokunbo Odutola, the witness said he was not at the crime scene. He said they got to the police division around 1pm.
He further said that when they took the defendant back to the division from the hospital, they left their boss at the hospital.
Odutola asked “at what point was the defendant disarmed?”
Justice Ibironke Harrison who presided over the testimony adjourned the hearing to February eight and nine for continuation of trial.
