Shock, confusion as ACP is found dead in bed

The Nigeria Police Force has been plunged into mourning following the sudden death of an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Mr.  Kayode Adewoye, who was found dead in his bed yesterday.

Adewoye resided at the Police Officers’ quarters, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos State and was said to have been found dead in his bed by family members.

Residents claimed that the man was discovered to be stone cold dead after he did not wake and step out from his room at his usual time.

Someone had gone to his room to check on him and discovered that his body was ice cold.

Nobody knew what led to his immediate death, but sources close to him said he was a diabetic patient.

It was gathered that the night before his death, Adewoye had taken his kids out for a treat, returned and went straight to bed, to be found dead the next day.

Adewoye was the commandant in charge of the Police Training School, Iperu, Ogun State.

He joined the Nigeria Police Force as a Cadet in 1990

The late Adewoye belonged to police cadet ASP course 290 and was about 53-year-old. He has worked at Ilasa, Bariga, Badagry Police Stations as the Divisional Police Officer, among other places.

The deceased studied Theatre Arts at the University of Ilorin, Kwara State. He was the chairman of University of Ilorin ‘Kegite’ club for the 1985/86 session.

He has three children. The oldest daughter had just gotten admission to a university in China, while the second just wrote her NECO examination.