A Lagos High Court has delivered judgement in the murder of football fan, Kolade Johnson who was allegedly shot dead by a dismissed police officer, Olalekan Ogunyemi.
Ogunyemi, who was attached to the Special Anti-Cultism Squad of the Nigeria Police, shot Johnson in the lower abdomen on March 31, 2019, at a viewing centre at Mangoro, Ikeja, Lagos.
The victim was watching a football match between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur when he was shot by the convict.
Olalekan was initially charged with murder but the court found him guilty of manslaughter.
While delivering his judgement Justice Adenike Coker sentenced Olalekan Ogunyemi to life imprisonment for manslaughter
The prosecutor called seven witnesses, while the defence called two witnesses at trial, a pathologist, Dr Oluwaseun Williams, testified that Johnson, 35, suffered six gunshot injuries.
Delivering judgment in charge no: ID/9776C/2019 between the State of Lagos vs Ogunyemi Olalekan, Justice Coker found the defendant guilty of the charge and accordingly sentenced him to life imprisonment with the caveat of serving a minimum of 25 years’ imprisonment.
