Chief of Army Staff: Death that killed Lagbaja should’ve taken me – Family head

The head of the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja’s family, Pa Tajudeen, has said the death that killed the ex-COAS should have been him.

Pa Tajudeen said he would never had obtained the Nigerian Defence Academic, NDA, form for Lagbaja if he for saw his death.

The younger brother to the late COAS’s father, disclosed this while speaking with The Nation.

He said he would never had bought the NSA form for Lagbaja if he knew the late COAS would die.

According to Pa Tajudeen: “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.”