The family of late Chief of Army Chief, COAS, Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja are still in excruciating pains over the loss of their shinning light. This is even as the head of the family, Pa Tajudeen Lagbaja, has expressed regret obtaining Nigerian Defence Academic (NDA) form for the deceased COAS.
Pa Tajudeen, who is the uncle to the late COAS, stated that he would not have bought the NDA form if he had known it would lead to COAS untimely death.
According to some family members of the late COAS, he might have been killed through diabolical means. This, they said is due to a land dispute in his hometown.
The Nation, in 2023 reported that a dispute arose in Ilobu, the headquarters of Irepodun Local Government Area in Osun State, when representatives of the Nigerian Army planned to establish a hospital in the community.
Pa Tajudeen told The Nation that he initially obtained the NDA form for the late Lieutenant General.
“Everyone who is born must die. We give glory to God. The year that I obtained NDA form for him, if I had known that he would die before me, I would not have done so. I regret obtaining the form for him. But it is destiny.
“The death that killed Taoreed Lagbaja ought to take me. I took him as one of my children. We are greatly bereaved, we are sad. He constructed a borehole in his father’s compound and other places in the community.
“We can never forget him; his death is so shocking to us. I have accepted the fate. All the promises he made to me have hit a brick wall. He always gave us hope in the family. Despite the sorrow, I give thanks to God,” the family head said.
source: Daily Trust
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