{"id":10972,"date":"2022-12-26T12:31:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T12:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10972"},"modified":"2022-12-26T12:38:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T12:38:03","slug":"christmas-day-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10972","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Day Tragedy: Policeman Shoots Lawyer Dead On Her Way From Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

A policeman<\/a> has allegedly shot and killed a lawyer, Mrs. Omobolanle Raheem, at the Ajiwe area of Ajah, Lagos State, on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Omobolanle Raheem is a member of the Lagos Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association<\/a> (NBA).<\/span><\/p>\n

She was shot at close range by the yet to be identified Assistant Superintendent of Police<\/a> (ASP).<\/span><\/p>\n

The Nation<\/a> gathered that the family was on its way back from church when the incident happened under the Ajah bridge and near the police<\/a> station.<\/span><\/p>\n

The alleged killer cop and two other members of his team have been arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was learnt that the policemen were allegedly extorting motorists on the highway and had asked Raheem’s husband, who was driving to park their vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the deceased’s junior colleague, her husband slowed down and was waiting for the car Infront of them to move so he could park properly.<\/span><\/p>\n

“My boss Barr Omobolanle Raheem was shot dead by a police<\/a> officer on her way back from Christmas service at Ajah under bridge.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Her family just called me now, that they need a lawyer to stand in for them before the police changes the narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n

“They have taken the matter to Ajiwe Police Station. The police<\/a> officer is from Ajiwe station.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Her husband was the one driving, Barr. Omobolanle was seated in the front with her husband.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The officer asked them to park and they needed the vehicle in front to move so they can park well, and immediately the police officer shot at a close range right into her chest.<\/span><\/p>\n

“On seeing what happened, the remaining police officers on duty there absconded.<\/span><\/p>\n

“After a while, some policemen came and moved her body to the mortuary in Yaba, without obtaining any consent from her family members.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Currently her family has located where they moved her body to.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I am currently not in Lagos. I thought of bringing this to you for your assistance and guidance,” she wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

Confirming the incident, spokesman for the command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, described the incident as unfortunate and avoidable.<\/span><\/p>\n

He confirmed that the alleged shooter and two other of his team members were in detention and would be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department<\/a> (SCID), Yaba, for further action.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Unfortunate and avoidable incident that was. The ASP that shot and two others with him have since been taken into custody.<\/span><\/p>\n

“They are to be moved to the SCID for further investigation,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A policeman has allegedly shot and killed a lawyer, Mrs. Omobolanle Raheem, at the Ajiwe area of Ajah, Lagos State, on Christmas Day. Mrs. Omobolanle Raheem is a member of the Lagos Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). She was shot at close range by the yet to be identified Assistant Superintendent of Police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5443,6065,511,546,521,3589],"class_list":["post-10972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-black-sunday","tag-christmas-day","tag-extortion","tag-lawyer","tag-policeman","tag-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10976,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972\/revisions\/10976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}