PA Tajudeen Lagbaja, the Head of the Family of the late Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja, said he regretted obtaining the Nigeria Defence Academic(NDA) form for the deceased.
He said he wouldn’t have obtained the form for the late COAS if he knew his life would be cut short.
Other family members alleged Lagbaja was killed diabolically because of a land dispute in his Ilobu hometown.
The Nation recalls that there was a dispute in Ilobu, headquarters of Irepodun Local Government Area of Osun State, in 2023 when delegates of Nigeria Army planned to establish a hospital in the community.
Pa Tajudeen Lagbaja, The younger brother of late COAS’s father, told The NATION he 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 the 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, his father’s younger brother. I took him as one of my children; we are greatly bereaved, and 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 fate. All the promises he made to me have hit a brick wall. He always gives us hope in the family despite the sorrow; I give thanks to God.”
Also, a family member, simply named Madam Toyin, alleged that he was killed diabolically because of a land dispute in the community.
Source: The Nation
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