NIDCOM Mourns Nigerian Who Died Trying To Save Drowning Briton

Jimi’s passage left his father, Michael Adewole, 63, and his mother, Olasunkanmi Adewole, 54, heartbroken.

In a statement on Tuesday by the commission’s Head of Media, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, the NIDCOM boss expressed deep pain over Jimi’s death, saying he would never be forgotten.

She passionately appealed to the family of Jimi to take heart and be consoled by the fact that he died as a fearless hero and would be forever remembered as a martyr.

Dabiri-Erewa prayed to God to grant the deceased’s soul perfect peace and comfort his aged parents, family and friends in the best manner.

“This is a very painful and sad incident for a young promising Jimi to die this way, sacrificing his life,” she said in the statement titled, ‘Jimi is our hero, martyr’.

Undoubtedly, Jimi with this courageous and selfless act has earned himself the sobriquet of a hero and attained the highest form of death; martyrdom,” she said.

Commenting on reports of Jimi’s death, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, tweeted that “he was the best of us.”