THE UNPROVOKED KILLING OF BOLANLE RAHEEM : A VICTIM ONE TOO MANY AND A DEATH PENALTY WITH NO SOCIETAL BENEFIT
A Lagos High Court sentences Assistant Superintendent of Police Drambi Vandi to death on the unprovoked killing of Mrs Bolanle Rahim on a Christmas morning. This conviction to the proponents of death penalty serves as a closure to the family of the victim who for all imagination do not deserve such a brutal, unprovoked and senseless killing by the very one paid to protect her. Again this should not only end in justice for Bolanle but a loud call that the time for a holistic police reform (not only the review of the police Act) is apt. The said reform laced practically with a proper reassessment of professional conducts while on duty and a consideration of a standard department for routine mental health evaluation of all police personal prior to resumption of duty. Bolanle is one victim too many, but one that law has taken its bearing. There are too many Bolanles crying for justice in their resting places. Source: Punch Newspaper