Policeman Opens Fire on chief olu falae car (chief olu falae narrowly escape death)

Afenifere Chieftain, Chief Olu Falae, on Tuesday narrowly escaped death when a policeman reportedly fired a gunshot at his car along Akure-Ilesa Expressway.

According to Tribune, Falae was on his way to Ile-Ife, where he wanted to join other leaders of Afenifere on a courtesy visit to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi when the incident occurred.

"Then I was kidnapped, now they want to kill me," Falae said, expressing shock.

"I was coming from Akure approaching Ilesa. I saw some vehicles ahead of me. There was a bullion van in front. The vehicles ahead of us were overtaking the bullion van and we too followed.

"I nearly passed them when I heard a shot and I heard a bang on my car. We stopped and we saw that they have fired at our car.

"They didn't stop. We stopped at Erin-Ijesa and complained to the police at the check-point that we were fired at by some policemen following a bullion van at Ile-Oluji juction.

"I am entertaining fear over continuous attack on me. I don't know why I was kidnapped recently, why I was arrested in 1997 and locked up for two years."

Personal Assistant to Chief Falae, Captain Moshood Raji corroborated the event.

"It is true, they shot at the car as we by pass them between Ikeji Arakeji and Ipetu in Osun State as others did. There were three vehicles first Hilux van which carry the policemen, the bullion van and the pilot. Chief Falae's Jeep drove pass the pilot so one of the men policemen fired the at the jeep . Nobody was injure and chief Falae and everybody is fine," he said.