Christmas Day Shooting –How Vandi ignored DPO’s premonition, warning

The Christmas Day Shooting of a female lawyer in Lagos, would probably have been averted had the alleged culprit, ASP Drambi Vandi respected premonition.

This was because the Divisional Police Officer in Ajah, had that day, acting on promotion, warned Vandi against shooting any civilian.

He gave him that warning at the Ajah police station that morning preparatory to their resumption of duty.

Details of this, emerged yesterday at the Lagos High Court, where the DPO, Matthew Ahmen, a police inspector gave evidence.

Ahmen who was a colleague of ASP Drambi Vandi, was led in evidence-in-chief by the Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Moyosore Onigbajo, SAN.

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He told Justice Ibironke Harrison that on December 25, 2022, when the incident happened, he and his colleagues resumed duty at 6am in their office at Ajah.

“The DPO told us that on no account should anyone use firearms, except someone was in danger or our lives were being threatened”, the witness said.

According to the witness, he was in the middle, another colleague Dimini was in front, while Vandi was at the back.

According to Ahmen, after Dimini saw a car coming and flagged it down, the car did not stop, making him to also flag down the car when it got to where he was, adding that the driver did not stop.

“The next thing I heard was a gunshot and I looked back to see what was happening; I saw that a windscreen was falling down.

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“The next thing I saw again was a dark woman who jumped down from the vehicle and I heard her saying, ‘Oga you have killed my sister.’ The woman held him (Vandi) and before I and Dimini could get to them, they had entered the car, locked it and left,”

“Vandi entered the same vehicle and they drove him away; we did not know where they went to. While we were at the station, we saw that the DPO brought ASP Vandi to the station with the police patrol vehicle.”

According to the prosecution, Vandi unlawfully killed the pregnant woman by shooting her in the chest, thereby contravening Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.

In the meantime, the case has been adjourned to January 25 and 26.

The Eagle reports that the Christmas Day shooting turned out a damper on an otherwise celebrative day.