A Nigerian court has sentenced a police officer to death for shooting and killing a lawyer in the commercial hub of Lagos. The judge on Monday told the officer accused of killing Bolanle Raheem, who was pregnant at the time, that he would be “hanged by the neck' till death. Drambi Vandi, the police officer, had pleaded not guilty. Local media reported that the policeman shot the lawyer on Christmas Day last year after her vehicle in the town of Ajah in Lagos failed to stop at a checkpoint. While
LAGOS, Nigeria — A Nigerian court sentenced Monday a police officer to death for shooting and killing a lawyer in the commercial hub of the city of Lagos.After nearly a year, Justice Ibironke Harrison of the Lagos High Court found police officer Drambi Vandi guilty of one count of murder of Bolanle Raheem, who was pregnant at the time when she was shot dead Christmas Day last year. Local reports said Raheem was in her early forties.
Vandi shot the lawyer after her vehicle in the town of Ajah in Lagos failed to stop at a checkpoint, local media reported at the time.Nigerians protest mysterious death of Afrobeat star as police exhumes body for autopsyHe had denied opening fire at Raheem, but one of his colleagues who testified during the hearing confirmed hearing the gunshot. Vandi has a right to appeal the ruling.
“You will be hanged by the neck till you are dead,” the judge told the police officer who had pleaded not guilty.against the police are rife. On social media, people hoped the sentence would send a warning signal to erring police officers who often evade justice.Nigeria has thousands of pending death sentences. Executions rarely go into effect as they require approvals by powerful state governors.
There were questions about whether the Lagos Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu would approve the police officer’s execution.“The death penalty is inhumane, amounts to vengeance and prone to error. There is no evidence that it has achieved the objective of creating a deterrence to crime,” said Okechukwu Nwanguma, who leads the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre which advocates for police reforms in Nigeria.
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