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The reported killing of a innocent legal practitioner, wife, mother and law-abiding citizen, Bolanle Raheem, on Chrismas day, the 25th of December while on a festive jaunt with her husband is one death too many. We all must now grieve as a professional body and as a community with shared citizenry for this incredible loss.
One cannot imagine the trauma of the husband who sat right beside her in the car as she was shot to death by a trigger-happy cocked up bullish policeman with the manners of a criminal lout. It is unfathomable how an institution appointed as protectors over the nation and citizenry would continue to churn out a murderous lot who shoot first and ask no further question. The action of that police officer stands condemned in the strongest possible term and the Nigeria Police Force as a whole must take vicarious liability over the culpability of its personnel in an open murder while making sure justice is manifestly done and seen to be done in the matter.
By the tail end of the year 2020, scores upon scores of young men, women, children, and even the elderly, took over major cities all over the country with cries of marginalization against the Nigeria Police Force especially its now disbanded SARS unit. The crescendo of that protest was the very sad event at the Lekki Toll Gate, the ghost of which continue to haunt the corridors of recent memory on the excesses of the Nigeria Police Force and their uninhibited love for extrajudicial killings of harmless, innocent Nigerians.
Nigeria has the worst, most unprofessional, shameless, I intelligent, cowards, spineless security agencies in the whole world, operating with uncivilised aggression, coercion and blackmail.
I am incredibly saddened by the whole sordid affair and extend my condolences to the family of the victim. To lose a loved one in such a gruesome manner and on a day of rest, joy and felicitation is truly regretful. May her gentle, innocent soul Rest In Peace.
