Nairobi, April 21 -- The shocking death of General Francis Ogolla in a helicopter crash on Thursday, barely a year after becoming the country's Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), mirrors that of Lt-Gen Ibrahim Attahiru of Nigeria on May 21, 2021.

Gen Ogolla became the first CDF to die in office. The copter crash has triggered questions and rumours.

That was the case too when Lt-Gen Attahiru died in a crash near Kaduna International Airport.

Attahiru had been the Chief of the Army Staff for only five months when he and 10 of his colleagues were killed as their aircraft, a Nigerian Air Force Beechcraft Super King 350, went down.

Just like Gen Ogolla, Attahiru was the first active-duty military chief to die in office in Nigeria.

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