By Tayo Alabi
The Nigerian Air Force on Friday stated that it was investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of its Flying Officer, Tolulope Arotile, in a road accident,saying that two persons were being held.
The NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, stated these in an interview with The PUNCH.
He said at the end of the investigation, “whatever information needs to go out will go out.”
The NAF spokesman later in a release on Friday noted that Arotile would be buried Thursday, July 23, at the National Military Cemetery, Abuja, with full military honours.
The NAF noted that it would continue to support female pilots’ training as 11 were currently undergoing training within and outside Nigeria.
The NAF on Tuesday announced that Arotile, Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot, died at the NAF base in Kaduna State from a road traffic accident.
The air force said the female officer sustained head injuries from the accident when she was “inadvertently hit by the reversing vehicle of an excited former Air Force secondary school classmate while trying to greet her.”
