Group Urges Tinubu to investigate Ogalla, Ex-Service Chiefs
A group, the National Transparency Network (NTN) has called on President Tinubu to order for an investigation of corruption allegation against the Chief of Naval Staff, Emmanuel Ogalla.
Chairman of the group, Mr. Sunday Gabriel in a press statement made available to the media said, the corruption allegations labeled against Mr. Ogalla as contained in an exclusive publication by an online newspaper, People’s Gazette is too weighty to ignore, and can dent the image of President Tinubu’s administration.
“It’s in the spirit of transparency and national development that we’re calling on President Bola Tinubu to swiftly order for investigation on the alleged corrupt dealings labeled against the present Chief of Naval Staff, Emmanuel Ogalla.
“The allegations are too weighty to ignore, it can dent the image of the administration, and raise suspicions on the genuineness of President Tinubu’s drive of fighting corruption.
“We’ve appreciated President Tinubu’s decision of suspending the embattled Humanitarian Minister over an alleged illicit financial dealing and the tempo should be maintained.
“Under President Tinubu, the Country has recorded improved ranking in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released last Tuesday by Transparency International.‘’ The group noted.
Recall that on the 26 January, Peoples Gazette has revealed that preliminary investigations estimated Mr Ogalla had accepted over $170 million in bribes over the past six months alone.
“This is what we were able to estimate so far from our findings,” an official said. “He started offering the services of the Nigerian Navy to crude oil thieves immediately after he was announced as chief of naval staff.” Gazette was quoted.
While reacting on the allegation, Bello Matawalle, Minister of State for Defence said this administration has zero tolerance for corruption and promised that the matter will be fully investigated.
In the same vein, the group has also urged Mr President to extend the investigation to the tenure of the immediate past service chiefs in order to bring sanity into the system.
