{"id":10984,"date":"2022-12-28T13:45:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T13:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10984"},"modified":"2022-12-28T13:58:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T13:58:33","slug":"killer-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10984","title":{"rendered":"Barr. Bolanle Raheem: National Assembly Passes Resolution To Investigate Lagos Lawyer\u2019s Gruesome Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/nass.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">House of Representatives<\/a> has passed a resolution to investigate the circumstances leading to the killing of <a href=\"https:\/\/nigerianbar.org.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barrister<\/a> Bolanle Raheem in Ajah area of Lagos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The female lawyer was killed by a trigger happy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npf.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">policeman<\/a> under Ajah Bridge on Christmas Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hon Ibrahim Obanikoro representing Eti Osa Federal Constituency in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nass.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lower chamber<\/a> presented the issue on the floor today under matter of public importance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The House also resolved that all officers involved in the act should be prosecuted with a view to getting justice for the deceased while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npf.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police authority<\/a> stop officers from taking alcohol while on duty. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Our correspondent reports that the House later observed a minute silence in honour of the deceased.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You will recall that President Muhammadu Buhari, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nigerianbar.org.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nigeria Bar Association<\/a> and other prominent Nigerians have also condemned the murder of the lawyer while calling for accelerated prosecution of the killer cop.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives has passed a resolution to investigate the circumstances leading to the killing of Barrister Bolanle Raheem in Ajah area of Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[6070,6071,2440,327,6066],"class_list":["post-10984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-barr-bolanle-raheem","tag-ibrahim-obanikoro","tag-murder","tag-national-assembly","tag-slain-lagos-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984"}],"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=10984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10987,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions\/10987"}],"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=10984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}