A police inspector, Matthew Ahmen, who was a colleague of ASP Drambi Vandi, the police officer who killed a lawyer, Mobolanle Raheem, on Monday, told a Lagos State High Court that the Ajah Divisional Police Officer (DPO) warned them against shooting any civilian.
NEWSBREAK reports that Ahmen, who was led in evidence-in-chief by the Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Moyosore Onigbajo (SAN) told Justice Ibironke Harrison that on December 25, 2022, when the incident happened, he and his colleagues resumed duty at 6 am in their office at Ajah.
“The DPO told us that on no account should anyone use firearms, except someone was in danger or our lives were being threatened,” the witness said.
He stated that the trio were posted to Ajah under bridge and Vandi was the leader of the team.
The witness, who noted that he enlisted in the Nigeria Police Force in 2001, stated that while they were conducting a stop and search, another colleague, Dimini, was in front, while he was at the middle; Vandi was at the back.
Ahmen said when Dimini saw a car coming and he flagged it down, the car did not stop.
According to him, when the car got to where he stood, he also flagged it down but the driver did not stop.
“The next thing I heard was a gunshot and I looked back to see what was happening; I saw that a windscreen was falling down.
“The next thing I saw again was a dark woman who jumped down from the vehicle and I heard her saying, ‘Oga you have killed my sister.’ The woman held him (Vandi) and before I and Dimini could get to them, they had entered the car, locked it and left,” he added.
Recall that last December, Raheem was shot dead in an incident involving Drambi Vandi, an assistant superintendent of police, who has now been suspended.
The lawyer, who was pregnant at the time of her death, was returning home from a Christmas outing with her family when the shooting incident occurred at the Ajah axis of Lagos.
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