A Chief Superintendent of Police attached to the Lagos State Police Command, Kazeem Sunmonu Abonde, who was murdered in a gruesome manner on September 23 by hoodlums in the Ajao Estate area of the state, will be buried in Ibadan, Oyo State, on October 1, 2021.
A copy of the burial arrangement obtained by The Point, shows that his body will leave the Lagos State police command headquarters in a motorcade for interment at his residence, Baale Abonde’s house, Ona Ara Local Government, Ibadan.
The 54-year-old police officer is survived by a wife, children and an aged mother.
Abonde, who was also a lawyer, was killed nine months to his retirement from the Nigeria Police Force and become a full-time legal practitioner at a chamber based in Osogbo, Osun State.
He was lynched during a joint operation on the enforcement of ban on motorcycles plying restricted routes in the state while one of the police operational vans taken to the neighbourhood was destroyed.
The raid was reportedly carried out by a tactical team comprising operatives from the Operations Department of the state police command headquarters, Ikeja, the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, Rapid Response Squad, and the Ajao Estate Police Division.
He was enlisted in the Nigeria Police Force in June 1987 and rose through the ranks to a CSP in June 2019.
He studied Law at the Lagos State University. He graduated in 2014 and proceeded to the Law School. He became a barrister in law in 2016 and went back to LASU for a master’s degree. He bagged LLM (Master in Law) in 2019.
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered the Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu to fish out the killers of Abonde in a bid to prosecute them.
The governor, in a statement he personally signed on Tuesday, said the government of Lagos State had noted with deep concern attacks on law enforcement agents by hoodlums.
He said such senseless attacks were attempts to trample on law and order by those who are desperate to turn the society upside down, saying this would not be allowed to happen.
“In the latest of such attacks, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Kazeem Abonde, was killed on September 23, 2021 in Ajao Estate by yet unknown hoodlums.
“I have directed the Commissioner of Police to ensure that all those who participated in this savagery are brought to justice. This is to encourage our law enforcement agents that we will always stand by them as they carry out their duties and, at the same time, send a strong signal to criminals that any attack on our officers will not go unpunished,” he said.
Sanwo-Olu said such display of savagery as the one in which CSP Abonde died would not be allowed in Lagos State, no matter the circumstances.
