{"id":121648,"date":"2023-11-21T02:47:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T02:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/21\/armed-robbers-shot-at-us-falz-recounts-near-death-experience-2\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T02:47:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T02:47:54","slug":"armed-robbers-shot-at-us-falz-recounts-near-death-experience-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/21\/armed-robbers-shot-at-us-falz-recounts-near-death-experience-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Armed Robbers Shot At Us\u2019 &#8211; Falz Recounts Near-Death Experience |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><!-- related --><\/p>\n<p><!-- related --><\/p>\n<p>Popular Nigerian singer and rapper, Folarin Falana, better known as Falz, has recounted his near-death experience while returning from a wedding ceremony he performed in the nation\u2019s capital city, Abuja, in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Falz stated that alongside his managers, Femisoro Ajayi and Sidney Sule, the trio were in the car when dangerous-looking men shot at the car they were in, in which the driver of the car lost his life on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>He further revealed that the men who attacked them were \u201cturban-tying, AK47-wielding,\u201d and it was during the peak days of Boko Haram in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He made this known while appearing on the latest episode of Untapped with media personality Gbemi O.<\/p>\n<p>His words: \u201cIt was after NYSC, and this was me working in my dad\u2019s firm as a lawyer in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen we got a call to come to Abuja for a show. The payment was N1 million, and logistics will be taken care of. It was a wedding, so we took the trip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no flight from Abuja to Lagos. So we hired a car from Abuja to Benin. I led a solid prayer, and it was probably what ended up saving us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was broad daylight, and we started the trip around 2 p.m. We fell asleep during the trip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen we just heard a loud bang. We woke up to see these turban-tying, AK47-wielding, dangerous-looking men in the middle of the expressway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bang we heard was a gunshot they had shot at the car. They shot at our car again, and the bullet came flying in between everyone. Everything happened so fast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey shot at us again, and the bullet hit the driver in the eye. The driver died instantly. The car started moving. It was wild. I remember seeing the car heading for a ditch and just thinking, this is it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen we passed out. I was the first to come around. I got out of the car and saw one of the men asking, \u2018Where is the money?\u2019 I told him there was no money. He goes to the car looking for cash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had left Abuja, but we hadn\u2019t gotten to Lokoja. It was all forest. It was the peak of Boko Haram, and we were somewhere in the north.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started to hear sirens from far away. The police did not come near. At this point, they increased fire and started shooting. They later moved away from us and retreated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe tried to stop cars on the expressway, but not a single soul stopped. 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