Killer DPO: Court adjourns to June 25

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The Ademola Daramola seen here being manhandled by Policemen led by DPO Segun Fabunmi

(Nigeria) A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere  on Thursday adjourned to June 25, the  hearing in the case involving  a dismissed  Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Segun Fabunmi, alleged to have murdered one Mr Ademola Daramola.
Fabunmi was alleged to have committed the offence  during the January 2012 fuel subsidy protests in Lagos.
Justice Olabisi Akinlade  ordered the adjournment to enable the prosecution team led by Mrs E.I. Alakija to file its  final written address and for the defence team  led by Mr T.J. Odeshola  to file its reply.
"The matter is hereby adjourned to June 25 for filing of final written addresses." Akinlade said.
Fabunmi, the former DPO of Pen Cinema Police Station, Agege, a suburb of Lagos, had served in the Nigerian Police Force for 28 years.
He had  denied shooting Daramola in 2012.
Fabunmi had  claimed, in his testimony before the court, that he along with five junior officers had responded to a distress call at the Yahaya Abatan Junction, Ogba, Lagos State on the said date.
He said that on getting to the scene of the incident on the said date,  some  hoodlums tried to dispossess him of his weapon leading to an unexpected discharge of  ammunition which inadvertently killed Daramola.
"I was the only one armed on that day. I was attacked by the mob which surrounded me and tried to collect my weapon from me.
``The junior officers who accompanied me on that day ran away for dear lives and during the struggle with the mob, I heard my gun expel a bullet. My Lord, I never shot at anyone and may the soul Ademola Daramola rest in peace," Fabunmi said.
NAN also reports during the trial that five prosecution witnesses testified that Fabunmi chased Daramola and shot at him.
Fabunmi faces a possible death sentence if convicted of murder.

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