Army Chief Lagbaja
Shocking! Family alleges diabolic details on Army Chief, Lagbaja’s death
Pa Tajudeen Lagbaja, the head of the late Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja’s family, has linked the Army Chief’s death ti diabolical way, saying he would have been taken instead.
Pa Lagbaja said he regretted obtaining Nigerian Defence Academic (NDA) form for the deceased when he joined the Nigerian Army.
Pa Tajudeen, the younger brother of the late COAS’s father, stressed if he had known, he would not have bought the form for which gave him the chance to enlist in the Army then.
“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.
Some family members also corroborated the position that Lt. General Lagbaja may have been killed through diabolical means due to a land dispute in his hometown.
It was recalled that sometimes 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.
“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.
A family member of the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja, has suggested that his untimely death may have been linked to diabolical forces related to a land dispute in their hometown, Ilobu, Osun State.
Madam Toyin, who spoke on behalf of the family, said Lagbaja’sdeath might be connected to rising tensions over a land issue that surfaced when the Nigerian Army proposed constructing a hospital in the community in 2023.
Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja died in Lagos Tuesday night during a brief illness, leaving behind a grieving family and community members who remember him fondly.