Pa Tajudeen Lagbaja, the head of the family of the late Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja, expressed regret over obtaining the Nigeria Defence Academy (NDA) application form for the deceased.
He stated that he would not have applied for the form had he known it would ultimately lead to the COAS’s untimely death.
Some family members also alleged that Lt. General Lagbaja may have been killed through diabolical means due to a land dispute in his hometown of Ilobu.
According to The Nation, In 2023 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.
Read Also: Things You Don’t Know About Late Chief Of Army Staff Lagbaja
Pa Tajudeen, the younger brother of the late COAS’s father, shared with The Nation that he was the one who initially obtained the NDA form for the late Lieutenant General.
The distraught family head said: “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 have not done so. I regret obtaining the form for him. But it is destiny.
“The death that killed Taoreed Lagbaja ought to take me, his father’s younger brother. I took him as one of my children, we are greatly bereaved, we are sad. He constructed borehole in his father’s compound and other places of the community.
“We can never forget him, his death is so shocking to us. I have accepted fate. All the promises he made to me have hit brick wall. He always give us hope in the family despite the sorrow, I give thanks to God.”
Al family member simply named Madam Toyin alleged that he was killed diabolically because of land dispute in the community.
https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaihFajBadmT29ufud2Z
