Its really saddening that in Nigeria, a young person cannot achieve great heights in peace through hard work and get rewarded. Just wondering how she would have been celebrated as a young officer, female for that matter, if she were to be in a developed country. All efforts would have been in top gear not to lose her to anything, not even a premature death the way it happened.
The elder sister who had dropped her off at the NAF base talked of suspecting a foul play on her sudden death, having dropped her off in her own car at about past 4pm at the NAF base in Kaduna, the day of the sad occurrence. The next call she heard of her was from Tolu's fiancee who informed her that Tolu was at the ICU, not quite long after that call, she saw the news online of her sister's death. She talked about being disappointed because her younger sister served at such epoch position nationally. She actually heard of her death online.That must have been quite traumatizing for Mrs Adegboye, to think that her third younger sister, who resided with her, the fourth child in the family, her sister whom she dropped off for herself same day was gone in a jiffy to the land of no return, with no premonitions of any sort?
Her father also stated that someone called him and said 'call Tolu your daughter' he did and her mobile phone rang and no one picked it, some hours after, another person called him that he should call her number he did and this time he was told his daughter was at the mortuary.
So ridiculous!
The likes of achievers who seem to be well protected and untouched in Nigeria are hushpuppiyians, the hushpuppy and other puppies .
Her death is such a questionable one as alot of Nigerians have been expressing their views concerning her death that, there must be more than meet the eye but really this story will discourage well meaning Nigerians who even have ideas to move the Nigerian society forward having being opportune to train at different capacities, some abroad and some within.
What's the point if at the peak of one's career, the only thing on your mind is to make a positive impact but your struggles are rubbished, not appreciated and if care is not taken, one may lose his/her, there is no point.
Really, things like this happen even locally in Nigeria, whereby well meaning Nigerians have studied abroad and are back home to influence positively thereby improving the lot of the nation, they meet barriers through bottlenecks, obnoxious and cruel policies and policy holding,unimaginable corruption conditions,some jealousy, envy and bitterness, they arrive their local communities and villages from foreign trips and some armed men waylay them, they deny them their continuous existence, they just terminate and kill them in the process of betterment of their local communities. Even if they end up not giving out money, dollars to everyone in the community, is it not a good name that an achiever is from your local community?
In some cases, African supernatural means are used to end the lifes of some of these innocent persons.
Why do Nigeria still remain this way inspite efforts put in place by sincere persons who are never given a chance to make things work. If really the labour of our past heroes shall not be in vain, we have to be intentional about it otherwise, its just a joke.
By the way, who are those past heroes? how many sincere ones have we really had who actually had the interests of the nation at heart and not their own personal interest or their future generations' interest?
May God deliver African rulers from overstretched stomach infrastructure.
Fela Anikulapo's songs are just prophecies.
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