The mother of Bolanle Raheem, a Lagos-based lawyer who was fatally shot by a police officer, said her daughter was expecting twins.
The victim’s mother made this known when the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi, visited the family on Tuesday to express his condolences at their Ajah residence in Lagos.
‘I cannot see my ‘the Law’ again. She was pregnant with twins,” she said.
Recall how Mrs Raheem was fatally shot on Christmas day by a police officer attached to the Ajiwe police division in the Ajah area of the state.
Benjamin Hundeyin, the Lagos police spokesperson, on Monday named the killer cop as Drambi Vandi. He said Mr Vandi, an assistant superintendent of police, has been detained.
The shooting took place at Ajah Under Bridge area of Lagos on Sunday.
This was revealed by her bereaved mother, Mrs Salami, yesterday, when the Lagos State Commissioner of Police paid a condolence visit to the bereaved family. “
She recalled in tears how she hawked oranges to train her in school “This is just as late Bolanle’s widower, Gbenga Raheem, narrated how he watched her gasp for breath until she passed on, on reaching the third hospital she was rushed to.
She said she got the news of her daughter’s death on Sunday night and came back to their residence same day.
While she was talking, the commissioner of police and the victim’s husband, Gbenga Raheem, held and consoled her.
“She died with her glory. She left a five-year-old daughter behind. And they took her away,” the mother said amidst tears.
“On Monday, my granddaughter came to me and said, ‘grandma Iju Ishaga, I saw you yesterday when you were crying. You were shouting. Is it because of my mummy?’ And I said yes.
“Then she came again and told me that Pastor Jerry said what God cannot do does not exist, so, grandma stopped crying and she pecked me.
“Just like that she suddenly disappeared from among us.”
Meanwhile, the commissioner of police arrived at the Ajah residence of the deceased around 5:30 p.m.
He promised that the killer “won’t go unpunished.”
“The Force is bent on making sure that he pays dearly for what he has done,” he said.
Mr Raheem expressed gratitude to the police chief for his visit.
Earlier, a government delegation led by the Lagos State Commissioner for justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo, paid a condolence visit to the family of late Bolanle Raheem.
Mr Onigbanjo promised to lead the prosecution of the killer cop.
“The matter will be charged to court as soon as the police send us the case file. I will be leading the prosecution to show the seriousness the government attaches to this matter,” he was quoted as saying by a government statement.
