The family of Tolulope Arotile, the late first female combat helicopter pilot of the Nigeria Air Force (NAF), on Thursday called for an investigation into the circumstances that lead to her demise following a freak accident.
Her immediate elder sister, Damilola Adegboye,who made the call in an interview with Punch, said the family is not convinced with NAF’s explanation that she died in a freak accident.
AAcording to NAF account, Arotile died when a former classmate knocked her down while she was running to great her at the Kaduna air force base.
Adegboye, however, said the family is not stisfied with account and are demanding a thorough investigation into her sisters death.
She told the publication, “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.”
She recalled that they were together when Arotile received a call from someone that is likely a senior colleague and reluctantly left for the base as instructed.
“A call came into her phone which she picked but from the way they spoke, I knew the caller must be a senior officer calling her to come to Air force base. She felt reluctant and I offered to drop her off,” she said.
“One hour later, I read online that something serious had happened to her. I couldn’t believe that somebody I just dropped off is dead.”
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