The Director General of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), Professor Abubakar Sulaiman, has described the death of Lieutenant General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja as a colossal loss to the nation’s military.
Professor Sulaiman stated this in Abuja on Friday in a tribute to mourn the passage of the gallant senior officer who attained the apex of his professional career and left his footprints on the sands of time in service to the country.
“Time, the healer of all wounds, no matter how long it takes posthumously can never obliterate the Lagbaja’s effects on counterterrorism anti- banditry and anti- kidnapping operations in the annals of our dear nation” he said.
He lamented that the nation’s psyche is fractured, and the mood of the country is demoralised by the shocking death of one of her finest and best war-tested Lieutenant Generals.
He recalled among several other instances how the late Infantry officer performed his duty as the General Officer Commanding, GOC 1 Division, when he frontally confronted and demystified the Bandits in their grand zero.
“Although it is not how long, but how well that matters,” which is partially consolatory and consoling for us as , patriotic citizen in the circumstance of his death at an unripe age of 56 years old symbolically in active service to the country.
“That he died serving the country is undisputably a testament to Lagbaja being an epitome of service, a rugged and dogged fighter in defending the nation’s territorial integrity”, he said.
The Director General commiserated with the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, President Bola Timubu,, the Leaderships of the 10th National Assembly, the leadership of the Military Sector , the family of the late Chief of Army Staff and indeed all Nigerians over the death of Lt Gen TA Lagbaja.
