 Lager State High Court sittin at the Tafawa Ballewa Square Lagos Island as convicted and sentenced to death by hanging a suspended assistant superintendent of police Dramby Vandy for the murder of Mrs. Omar Ballanle Rahim. A 41-year-old pregnant lawyer at the Ajah Underbridge checkpoint on December 25, 2022. Justice Ibu Runkai Arisin held that the prosecution, the Lager State Government, has proven the case against the convict beyond all reasonable doubt. The court found the defendant guilty on one count of murder and sentenced Dramby Vandy to death by hanging. The court found the defendant guilty on one count of murder and sentenced to death by hanging a suspended assistant superintendent of police Dramby Vandy for the murder of Mrs. Omar Ballanle Rahim. In the very sobering case, a life was lost, another life has been sentenced to death although it has rights of appeal and there are still two levels of appellate courts that it could approach. The court found the defendant guilty on one count of murder and sentenced to death by hanging a suspended assistant superintendent of police Dramby Vandy for the murder of Mrs. Omar Ballanle Rahim. The court found the defendant guilty on one count of murder and sentenced to death by hanging a suspended assistant superintendent of police Dramby Vandy for the murder of Mrs. Omar Ballanle Rahim. The police then was that the man was struggling the rifle with the police officer duty or the man at the point, but it took the intervention of the ballistic experts who were serving the body to testify to the fact that this bullet wound was not as a result of scruffle, but a bullet wound that was fired at close range at the disease and the matter was appealed up to the supreme court and the supreme court at FEM, but the judgment of the two lower court. That's the first thing that came to my mind and second thing was the fact that in this case I had wished that my friend Ugo who also died in questionable circumstances in the hands of policemen you know sometimes a week a few days after his wedding some years ago also I wish he had gotten you know this kind of justice his family probably would have celebrated and then you know would have been very happy sisters would have been very happy and then so for these I am also you know I'm happy that the legal state government took up this matter and saw to the conclusion of prosecution investigation and prosecution and then that's you know also gave a lot of hope to people who you know matters similar issues that happen to that there's indeed light at the end of the tunnel and also it will send a strong signal to you know trigger of abusing you know their their powers and office but uh barista shama I must ask this question I know that you are a human rights activist and you I know some of the sacrifices you made to protect the rights of individuals in the country but I am also looking at the fact that cases like this especially in the backdrop of the sobriety that overwhelmed the police after answers cases like this may also want to make some police operatives to feel you know what I may just be putting my life you know either tail or head or tail I may just be putting my life at risk because if things like this happen I may be convicted what would you want to tell an average policeman who is watching this program who may not be tricky happy but who also may have seen circumstances where some of these antiquated guns that they give them and go go gaga on their own what would you want to tell that policeman if you notice if you see an army man on the checkpoint and a policeman on the checkpoint if you observe even the policeman if you see the way a mobile policeman handles is gone and the way a normal policeman the one with black uniform handles they are gone and the way an army man handles is gone is rightful and the checkpoint you notice if you have observed their differences their difference the way they all handle they are gone that's professionalism no matter how antiquated these guns are there are professional ways of handling these guns so a policeman who is trained properly trained and who abides by the rules of fire arms I do not think that the antiquated what you call a fire arm can just go ballistic on them and even if it does you would see the efforts of the states to also investigate the matter and you know at the end of the day the policeman might be punished for being negligent in handling his equipment or his rifle but it will not go this far but the situation where what so so that we don't have a situation where policeman will hide under the fact that yes you know I handled it properly but it just went ballistic on me and then be trigger happy recently I had cost to campaign or or submit a report against the attitude of some policemen on that same lucky as is where they just enter hire a van an unregistered van and then patrol that as is and begin to fleece innocent you know young people of their hard-earned money and then this same lady you know fortunately she was a lawyer also was one of them one of such on the christmas day so and then this idea of checkpoints you are gun points you have a gun at checkpoint is not properly handled so all of these things are the training and retraining that the police should ensure that their men go through and like I like like I said initially the idea of you know the rifle going ballistic it's uncut for really because if there are professionalism is professionalism is head to the highest estate yes mistake will happen but it will be very very minimal let me also give you an instance there are situations where you see a policeman as early as 6 a.m a policeman on duty at a checkpoint is ricken of alcohol in such situations it's quite unfortunate like that's why also I will also commend the effort of the police at not hiding you know this one or trying to throw up on necessary defense defense you know in the will of justice because you find we've seen situations over time where these things happen and then the police will say that the gun you know went off on its own or that in some cases because the person in question would have died the disease you know was struggling a gun with with the who accused person or that there was a time it was a recurring word accidental discharge accidental discharge became a recurring defense for police but unfortunately I also want to commend the police of today thanks also to social media that the police did not hide on that accidental discharge to sweep this also under the carpet and yes we can say even though you know this will not bring back the life of the disease but at least justice to the family justice to the unborn child justice to the husband justice also to the society that people who are saddled with responsibility of protecting others should not at will you know no matter the provocation you take the life of of people they are meant to protect what would you what would you want to tell other public prosecution departments in other states of the federation under the and at the federal level given the forensic nature of how the legal state public prosecution department went about this case got a ballistic expert got witnesses got pathologists and I was when I was reading the details of it and I was thinking some of these states where you can even see a barely functional public prosecution department would they be able to do something as detailed than this and would if places were to be swapped I don't want to mention some states now would an ASP or suspended ASP Vandy find himself where he is now yeah but but I tell you that when the police wants to walk they walk also the case I started cited before who goes here in the state that's happening at those states also ballistic experts were employed to carry out a forensic analysis of the body forensic analysis of the equipment used and prosecution was conducted detailing what we see happening in our society you remember those days we have every state had a robust minister of justice you know that would carry out you know all of these investigations and prosecution are you there you know corruption has crept so detailed into the fabrics of our society a corruption crept so detailed into the fabrics of our society that you know it now seems as if you know minor cases that ordinarily should you know even a new a new week should not only prosecute with who you know you will find state government wanting and at the federal level they would have probably have capacity to do much of this but our my call would be to the state government and to the local government you can imagine if this were left in the hands of you know a local government prosecuting agencies sorry a local government chairman for example to to investigate if not for the intervention of a state government and then you know the minister of justice you know i'm not a lawyer but i want to believe that the the power of investigation essentially a federal in nature because the place is the federal agency but the power of prosecution resides with the state as this the state of the prosecution department no no no no but what i'm saying about local government chairman for example you know this thing happens at the local government level everywhere is delineated into local government and just like you have been in in in america and in the uk where the office of the district attorney the office of the district attorney take up prosecution event happens at the local government it is for the local government to liaise with the dpl in that area to ensure that the prosecution is thorough even before taking into the state's investigation reporting the matter that the investigation is thorough yes investigation is thorough before even taking it to the state level where the minister of justice can begin to liaise with you know the investigating department but in this case but you will agree with me but you will agree with me that in our dystopic fed federation the even the agency that would do the that would do the investigation or the force that would do the investigation is an exclusive federal force that's the place yes that's what i'm saying but being an exclusive federal force but that's the upright within within the realms of society they also operate within local government areas and this event happened at the local government area you see where the state governors donate vehicles to police you see where local government chairman also donate sienas vehicles to police so what i am saying is if you have yes every every state government that is serious should be able to take up investigation or prosecution of of this nature but we should also empower our local government to be able to be a first the first line of charge to liaise with the the the DPU but it's not sure but it's not sure investigation but that's what i'm basically saying but but it's not sure ma you don't want to know how some local government function in some states of variation they only open the local government offices the day money will arrive from jack and as as soon as how do you want to wrap up how do you want to wrap up this so that okay i would you see you see but like i said that's why because of the discopic and dysfunctional nature of our local government that is why i'm saying that needs we need to empower them but in wrapping up really i think that this is just a drop of so many that have happened across the federation and then i will call on not just the state government including the police to also ensure that there is inherent discipline within the force that matters such as this not until somebody dies the issue of training and retraining of the police should be paramount the issue of training of how to handle firearms should be paramount and then there should be consequences for action whether rightly or wrongfully people who have a sales should be compensated and those people who are bad heads in the force also should be fished out and punished there should be consequences for action so with that that is how we grow society in society without obedience and observance to the rule of law can never be taken serious by anybody be it within thank you all without thank you very much by mr libron sushama like a practitioner we quite very grateful for your contribution this evening thank you i really want to say this before we wrap up that we know that many of the men in uniform please and other agencies even in the intelligence community out there we celebrate you we know that you put in your life to defend us is only the bad eggs that we want to enjoy enjoying at this juncture to please think of their own families what has happened to van denou we rub off negatively on his immediate family and his relations we wish him the very best thank you barista usama thank you my pleasure always and true thank you throwback nigeria today's throwback judge top man goldie the man who's 19th century business idea became nigeria sar george dashwood top man goldie kcm gfrs 20 may 1846 to 20 august 1925 was an entrepreneur who bought the business vision for more than 20 years and ultimately championed the founding of the entity which ultimately gained infamy as the royal niger company the commercial enterprise which the british government bought over to institutionalize the colonization on the first of january 1900 of the geographical areas with the colony of legoes and other territories later collectively called the southern and northern protectorate and in 1914 we are amalgamated to birth the political phenomenon known as nigeria in many ways his role was similar to that of cc roads in the southern region of africa but to refrain from self publicity like cc roads george goldie descended from an old scottish family born at the numbery dog was in isle of man the youngest son of lieutenant colonel jon top man goldie top man speaker of the house of keys by a second world caroline hevarina daughter of john heakin hovendine a barista of hemmingford grave orton don't share sar george resumed his partner named goldie by royal license in 1887 he was educated at the royal military academy woolich the london neighborhood were journalist flora shore who later married lord lugard and was credited to have christian nigeria hence the rumor that she first had a darlings with judge goldie for about two years goldie held the commission in the royal engineers unusually for the time goldie was a convince a feast to think that the country like nigeria was actually baronetist home asheau in 1870 he married matilda later known as bone kathryn daughter of jon wiliam heliott of workfield he traveled in all parts of africa gaining an extensive knowledge of the continent and first visited the country of the niger in 1877 he conceived the idea of adding to the british empire the then little known regions of the lower and middle niger and for over 20 years his efforts were devoted to the realization of this conception the method by which he determined to walk was the revival of government by chartered companies within the empire a method supposed to be buried with the british east india company the first step was to combine all british commercial interest in the niger and this year accomplished in 1879 when the united african company was formed in 1881 goldie sought a charter from gaston's government objections of various kinds were raised to meet them the capital of the company renamed the national african company was increased from 250 000 pounds to one million pounds and great energy was displayed in founding stations on the niger at this time french traders encouraged by leon gambetta established themselves on the lower river thus rending it difficult for the company to obtain territorial rights but the french men were bought out in 1884 so that at the berlin conference on west africa in 1885 goldie present as an expert on matters relating to the river was able to announce that on the lower niger the british flag was alone a few meantime the niger coastline had been placed under british protection through joseph thompson david mackin torch d w sergeant jefflyn william wallace e dengifield and numerous other agents over 400 political treaties were done up by goldie were made with the chiefs of the lower niger and the osa states the scruples of the british government being overcome a charter was at length granted july 1886 the national african company becoming the royal niger company with emory austin bruce first baron abidia as governor and goldie as vice governor in 1895 or lord abidia is there gold became governor of the company whose destinies he had guided throughout the building up of nigeria as a british state had to be carried on in face of further difficulties raised by french travelers with political mission and also in face of german opposition from 1884 to 1890 auto von bismar was a persistent antagonist and his tenuous efforts he made to secure for germany the basin of the lower niger nature were even more dangerous to goldie's kings of empire than their ambitions of france headboard robot fledgels who had traveled in nigeria during 1882 to 1884 under the auspices of the british company was sent out in 1885 by the newly formed german colonial society to secure treaties for germany which had established itself at cameroon after fledges there in 18 after fledges there in 1886 his work was continued by his companion doctor stoddinger why honus verge was dispatched to stay up trouble in the occupied portions of the company's territory or as he expressed it to burst up the charter he was finally arrested at onitsha and after travel by the company supreme court at asaba was expelled from the country bismar then sent out his nephew as german consul to nigeria with orders to report to to this affair and when this report was published in a workbook bismar demanded every damages from the company meanwhile bismar maintained constant pressure on the british government to compare the royal niger company to a division of spheres of influence whereby great britain would have lost a thought and the most valuable part of the company's territory but he fell from power in march 1890 and in july following robot gas coin sisil todmaki of saris saris brie concluded the early golan zanzibar treaty with germany the aggressive action of germany in nigeria entirely sixth and the door was open for a final settlement nigeria cameroon frontiers these negotiations which resulted in agreement in 1893 were initiated by goldie as a means of arresting the advance of france into nigeria from the direction of the kongo by cons by by conceding to germany a long but narrow strip of territory between adamawa and lechard to which he had no treaty claims a barrier was raised against french expedition semi military and semi exploratory which sought to enter nigeria from the east later french efforts at aggression were made from western or diameter inside desperate an agreement concluded with france in 1890 respecting the northern frontier in conclusion if a man's idea 6000 nautical miles away in 16th century in 18th century london with no internet hero plane and modern communication devices ultimately morphed to nigeria imagine what you can ideate for the good of nigerians and your personal economy games and that's it on the show tonight i am bola oba have a good night