A former Secretary to the Government of
the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, on Tuesday escaped death after one of
the policemen escorting a bullion van opened fire on his vehicle while
travelling to Ile-Ife, Osun State.
Punch learnt that the
incident happened at Ile-Oluji Junction. Falae was travelling to
Ile-Ife for Afenifere leaders’ visit to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye
Ogunwusi.
Sources at Ife palace told our
correspondent that the former Minister of Finance, who is the National
Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, briefed some persons at Ile-Ife
about the incident before the meeting with the Ooni.
Falae was quoted to have said,
If you recall, last year, he was kidnapped by Funali herdsmen and released after paying a heavey ransom.Efforts to speak directly to Falae were unsuccessful as calls put to his telephone did not connect.“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 followed too.“We just barely passed them when I heard a shot and I heard a bang on the car. We stopped and we discovered that they had shot at our car.“They didn’t stop. We stopped at Erin-Ijesa and complained to the police at the checkpoint that one of the policemen escorting a bullion van fired at us at Ile-Oluji Juction.”
May God continue to protect him
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ReplyDeleteThank god for his life but oga and those reading this, next time when you see a bullion van, tell your driver not to follow them closely cos that would have been the ONLY reason why they shot at the car not at the man Olu Falae himself. What we must know is that these policemen on cash movement duty risk their lives when on such missions because their men are killed daily. We may not hear of what goes on but if you all have banker friends in other insecure parts of Nigeria, ask and they will tell you. Bank staff are killed as well as drivers and of course the policemen who are usually their first targets. Most times, the bank has to employ children of such staff who die in the line of duty as compensation even when the child may not be so qualified. Let us not drive too close to bullion vans to avoid any reoccurrence. When you see them, they look like they are on a "death mission" so any car coming too close may be trying to attack them. This is from a bankers' point of view.
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