The Lagos High Court Sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) Monday ruled that a suspended Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Drambi Vandi, has a case to answer about the killing of a Lagos-based lawyer, Omobolanle Raheem, on December 25, 2022.
Justice Ibironke Harrison dismissed Vandi’s “no case submission” and ordered him to open his defence as the prosecution had made a ‘prima facie’ case against him.
Vandi had prayed the court to dismiss the suit and discharge him of the one-count charge of murder filed against him by the Lagos State Government, claiming he had no case to answer.
His lawyer Adetokunbo Odutola had told the court to note among other things that none of the eyewitnesses saw the defendant fire his gun and that the ballistic report of the gun allegedly shot expressly stated that the bullet could not be linked with any of the firearms recovered from the police officers at the scene.
But the prosecution led by Lagos State Attorney-General Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), had opposed him, insisting that the prosecution had successfully made its case against him.
The state, on January 16, arraigned Vandi on a one-count charge of murder.
It reads: “ASP Vandi on the 25th of December 2022 at Ajah roundabout along Lekki-Epe Expressway Lagos in the Lagos Judicial Division unlawfully killed one Omobolanle Raheem (F) by shooting her in the chest”.