Najeriya ta shiga cikin taquba bayan rasuwar Janar Taoreed Lagbaja, tsohon Babban Hafsan Sojan Najeriya, wanda ya mutu a ranar Talata, 5 ga watan Nuwamba, 2024, a Lagos.
Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Jibrin Barau, ya bayyana taqubarsa ta hanyar sanarwa, inda ya ce, “Lt. General Lagbaja ya yi aiki da girmamai, ƙarfi da kishin ƙasa a lokacin aikinsa na soja.”
President Bola Tinubu ya umurce a jefa tufafin Najeriya a rufin kasa na kwanaki sab’in a matsayin godiya ga rasuwar Janar Lagbaja. Tinubu ya bayyana taqubarsa ta hanyar sanarwa da Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, inda ya ce, “President Bola Tinubu, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, ya sanar da rasuwar Lt General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja, Babban Hafsan Sojan Najeriya, a shekarar 56.”
Janar Lagbaja ya fara aikinsa na Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) a shekarar 1987, kuma an rantsar da shi a matsayin Second Lieutenant a ranar 19 ga watan Satumba, 1992. Ya yi aiki a matsayin Babban Hafsan Sojan Najeriya daga ranar 19 ga watan Yuni, 2023, har zuwa rasuwarsa.
Gwamnatin jihar da dama, ciki har da Gwamnan jihar Imo, Hope Uzodimma; Gwamnan jihar Enugu, Peter Mbah; Gwamnan jihar Osun, Ademola Adeleke; da Gwamnan jihar Kogi, Ahmed Ododo, sun shiga cikin taqubarsa. Sun bayyana rasuwarsa a matsayin asarar babba ga ƙasar Najeriya da Sojan Najeriya.
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar da dan takarar shugaban ƙasa na jam’iyyar Labour Party, Peter Obi, sun bayyana taqubarsa ga iyalan Janar Lagbaja da Sojan Najeriya. Haka kuma, Forum of Nigerian Governors da Board, management, da ma’aikatan Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) sun shiga cikin taqubarsa.
