By Gbenga Sodeinde
Following the killing of a lawyer, Mrs. Bolanle Raheem in Lagos by the police, the former Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Ado-Ekiti branch, and Human Rights Lawyer, Samuel Olakanmi Falade, has called on the National Assembly to promulgate law that will put a stop to what he described as gross indiscipline in the Nigerian police.
Mrs. Raheem, a lawyer and expectant mother, was killed by a drunk policeman on Christmas Day in Lagos, while returning from eatery with her family.
Irked by the development, Barrister Falade who condemned what he described as a brutality act in a Telephone chat with heritagenews on Wednesday said, “we must rise up to fight this because the innocent victim was a respected learned colleague who was brutally killed with pregnancy.
“An injury done to one is an injury to all; I feel pained to the marrow that a colleague of ours was wasted by a drunk Police Officer in such a circumstance.
“Though, I quite appreciate what the National and Ikeja branches are doing but we must do more, a peaceful protest to the office of the Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State will not be out of place.
“when a colleague of our was molested the other time, we took steps but foot dragged, we need to send a message to put a stop to this nonsense. What if the person was from this branch.
“All hands must be on the deck to stop this, which is becoming unbecoming, I call on the National Assembly to pass law to curb this insanity.
“A law should be passed at both the national and state Assemblies against blood thirsty and undisciplined officers and men”, Falade added.