NIDCOM mourns Nigerian who died trying to save a drowning Briton
The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has condoled with the family of Folajimi Olubunmi Adewole, the 20 year old Nigerian who lost his life while trying to save the life of a woman who fell from the London Bridge on Saturday.
She described him as “our hero and a great martyr”.
The young Nigerian, popularly known as Jimi, was on his way home from work when he saw a woman fall off London Bridge.
He and another man entered the water at around midnight in a bid to rescue her but while the woman and the other man were rescued by the Coastguard and the Metropolitan Police’s Marine Unit, Jimi wasn’t found after an extensive search.
Jimi’s passage left his father, Michael Adewole, 63, and his mother, Olasunkanmi Adewole, 54, heartbroken.
Commenting on reports of Jimi’s death, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, tweeted that “he was the best of us”.
