The mother of the Lagos-based lawyer, Bolanle Raheem, who was shot dead by an Assistant Superintendent of Police, Drambi Vandi, in Ajah, is in agony.
She said on Tuesday, when the state Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi, paid her a condolence visit that she hawked oranges to educate her late child.
Mrs Sherifat Salami expressed shock that her daughter “disappeared just like that.”
According to Premium Times, the mother who spoke in Yoruba said “I suffered in lack and hawked for my daughter to become a law graduate. I hawked oranges to ensure she had a good education, but today, I can’t find her again.”
The bereaved mum said, “Commissioner, it is not easy—a child I raised from childhood. I laboured and suffered because of her. I hawked oranges, there is nothing I didn’t do for her to become a lawyer. She was now killed at the time that I am supposed to be eating the fruit of my labour. God should fight for me. She was my only child.
“She was not ill; she had no pain; she suffered no sickness; she just disappeared like that. My daughter disappeared on Christmas Day, a day that everybody was happy.”
Turning towards the police commissioner, she added: “Commissioner, it is not easy to bear.”
