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How first female combat Pilot was killed

July 15, 2020

By Elohor Igbru

New facts have emerged about how Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot Tolulope Arotile was killed in an unfortunate accident at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) base in Kaduna yesterday.

Several sources who spoke to INFACTNG confirmed that the decorated pilot was not killed by armed bandits as being speculated in a section of the media.  According to impeccable sources, the accident which killed the female pilot was a truly unfortunate occurrence.

INFACTNG learnt that, Tolulope was killed when a car driven by a friend and former student of Airforce Secondary School reversed into her and hit her while she was busy greeting someone else across the road. It was learnt that the friend was about to give her a ride when the incident happened.

“ She was supposed to be in that same car, but she wasn’t looking because her attention was taken over as she greeted another friend across the road. The car reversed into her and she hit her head on the culvert causing severe injuries to the head which she did not survive,” the source explained.

Fell at the hands of a friend

On what the military will do the pilot who drove the car: “ A Board of Inquiry (BOI) would be set up and the driver would be punished if he did not have a driver’s license, if he has, he would be reprimanded. Accidents happen everytime and the military has its own way of handling issues,” INFACTNG learnt.

This position was also correlated by NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information (DOPRI),  Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola dismissing the claims of a cover-up by NAF of a bandit attack.

A Profile in Courage

FLYING OFFICER TOLULOPE OLUWATOYIN SARAH AROTILE – (1995 – 2020)

Born on 13 December 1995 to the family of Mr and Mrs Akintunde Arotile in Kaduna, Flying Officer Tolulope Oluwatoyin Sarah Arotile, hails from Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State. She attended Air Force Primary School, Kaduna from 2000 – 2005 and Air Force Secondary School, Kaduna from 2006 – 2011 before she later gained admission into the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna as a member of 64 Regular Course on 22 September 2012.

Flying Officer Arotile was commissioned into the Nigerian Air Force as a Pilot Officer on 16 September 2017 and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the Nigerian Defence Academy. Flying Officer Arotile was winged as the first ever female combat helicopter pilot in the Nigerian Air Force on 15 October 2019, after completing her flying training in South Africa. She holds a commercial pilot license and also underwent tactical flying training on the Agusta 109 Power Attack Helicopter in Italy. Incidentally, she introduced the newly acquired Agusta 109 Power Attack Helicopter to the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, during the induction ceremony at Eagle Square in Abuja on 6 February 2020. 

Flying Officer Arotile died on 14 July 2020 at the age of 24, when she was inadvertently hit by the reversing vehicle of an excited former Air Force Secondary School classmate while trying to greet her. Before her untimely death, Flying Officer Arotile made significant and outstanding contributions to the war against terrorism, armed banditry and other forms of criminality in the Country, flying several combat missions.

Flying Officer Arotile joined the Nigerian Air Force out of passion for the job. In her words “I joined the military simply out of passion for it. Being a military personnel has been a long time ambition, the carriage and what it stands for are simply exceptional”. Gone too soon like a candle in the wind, she will be greatly missed by the entire Nigerian Air Force  family. The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, on behalf officers, airmen, airwomen and civilian staff of the Service, consoles with the family of late ‪Flying Officer Arotile over this irreparable loss.

May her gentle soul continue to Rest In Peace.

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