Raheem: You've case to answer, court tells killer cop
THE Lagos High Court, sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS, yesterday, dismissed a 'no case submission' filed by the suspended Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, Drambi Vandi, who allegedly killed a pregnant Lagos-based lawyer, Omobolanle Raheem, on December 25, 2022. Justice Ibironke Harrison ordered the defendant to open his defence as a ‘prima facie’ has been made against him. Vandi had filed his application on February 28, 2023 before the court, in a bid to have the charge brought against him by the Lagos State government quashed on grounds of weak and inconsistent evidence linking him to the murder. But, Justice Ibironke Harrison held that the prosecution, led by the Attorney-General of Lagos, Moyosore Onigbanjo, had established sufficient oral and documentary evidence linking the defendant to the crime, which required an explanation from him. The court added that the evidence of the defendant, being the only other eyewitness who had yet to testify before it about th...