How Mr Niyi Faloyo, A Survior, Died in Police Hands At A Check Point.

Mr Niyi Faloyo,a 42year-old surveyor has been reported dead following the sight of cocked gun aimed at him by a policeman who was on a stop and search duty at Felele area of Ibadan, Oyo State capital,on Wednesday.

However, the police insisted that the man died from high blood pressure.
Reports from the hospital the deceased was taken to indicates that the deceased was hypertensive as his blood pressure was 260/150 at the time he was rushed to the hospital
People of Felele insisted that the policemen from Felele Police Station, who were at a stop and search point at the time should be held responsible for the death of the man who drove the vehicle.
Mr Bimbo Bamidele, who volunteers comment said the  unregistered vehicle was coming from the Lagos-Ibadan expressway and ran into some police officers as it turned into Felele junction.
The vehicle, he said,had all necessary documents which had been shown to the policemen and which they had collected. One of the police officers was said to have suddenly cocked his gun and at the sight of the cocked gun, the driver, Mr Niyi Faloyo, a 42- year-old surveyor and father of two, was said to have tilted to one side of his body while his speech became slurred.
"Why should the officer cock his gun if he did not have the intention to shoot?" asked 

Bamidele and some men who were with him. "And why did they leave immediately the man's situation began to deteriorate. They even took the car's documents away,"

Reports emanating from the Felele Police Station indicated that the police officers involved in the incident had been detained but when contacted, the station's Divisional Police Officer, Mr Sodipo, the Police
Public Relations Officer, DSP Bisi Ilobanafor explained that "The policemen were performing their legal duty of checking the vehicle" and that they collected the particulars of the vehicle to verify that it was not a stolen vehicle. "The claim that an officer cocked a gun is spurious and unfounded because there was nothing like
that," the PPRO said.
"It was while the vehicle was being checked that the man entered into a spree and was foaming in the mouth and by the time he was rushed to the hospital, he had died. It was said at the hospital that he died of heart attack. His blood pressure was too high.
"Most people do not take their health seriously. Most people do not check their blood pressure at all. Anything could have caused the man's death but it was not the policemen.
They did not in any way contribute to the man's death.
"We empathise with the man's family and enjoin members of the public to take their health issues more seriously," the solice spokesman said. (Tribune)