Following the death of 24-year-old Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, her sister, Damilola Adegboye has demanded an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death.
Adegboye wondered “how an ordinary reversing could kill a person just like that”, the Nation reported.
“We in the family are not convinced that Tolu can just die like that in a freak accident. I know that the military is well trained in the art of investigation; we want them to carry out a thorough investigation that can convince us beyond all doubts that the incident that led to her death was real. On day of the incident, Tolu and myself were in the room where she was sleeping,” Adegboye said.
“A call came in to her phone, which she picked but from the way they spoke I knew that the caller must be a senior officer calling her to come to the Air Force base. She felt reluctant and I offered to drop her off.
“One hour later, I saw online that something serious had happened to her. I couldn’t believe that somebody I just dropped off is dead.”
A statement by the Nigerian Air Force Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, explaining how Ms Arotile died, said she was hit by a reversing vehicle.
“She was inadvertently hit by the reversing vehicle of an excited former Air Force Secondary School classmate while trying to greet her,” the Nigerian Air force said.
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