This was revealed in a 10-page petition to military authorities dated December 12, 2019 and signed by the victim, who is seeking justice.

Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas, has been accused of locking up Navy Captain Emmanuel Ekpe Owen (NN1538) in toilet for six days after exposing his financial impropriety.

This was revealed in a 10-page petition to military authorities dated December 12, 2019 and signed by the victim, who is seeking justice.

The petition partly reads, "I regret to humbly state the victimisation and injustice of my person vide a petition on the present Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibot Ette Ibas, to the Commander-In-Chief of our great country Nigeria.

"The genesis of my problem with the present CNS could be traced to 1995 and 1996 when we were on national assignment in Liberia under the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group."

A source familiar with the matter told SaharaReporters that Owen was assigned to ECOMOG as Supply Officer in 1996.

The Nigerian Naval Ship AMBE was said to have been assigned to ECOMOG fleet under the command of Retd Captain Dada Labinjo (then commander), with present CNS (Ibas) then a Lieutenant Commander and second in command.

On one of NNS AMBE's trip to Nigeria in 1996 for Back Loading Military Ordinance, five officers and 33 ratings were dropped from the ship and assigned to various duties at Western Naval Command, Apapa, Lagos.

It was gathered that a total of 45 personnel were left onboard NNS AMBE, which eventually returned to Moronvia, Liberia, for continuation of ECOMOG duties.

The source said Captain Owen stumbled on the allowance file for the personnel onboard at the time and discovered that the present CNS had inflated the names of personnel to 85 instead of 45 with various rates attached to each recipient and already paid.

It was gathered that Owen summoned courage and confronted Ibas about the issue, insisting that the discrepancies in the ECOMOG allowance could put the ship in trouble and embarrass the Nigerian Navy.

Upon realising that Owen was in the know of his financial malfeasance with respect to the disbursement of allowances for 85 personnel instead of 45, Ibas ordered him locked inside a toilet for six days.

Ibas went further to accuse Owen of all sorts of offences including dereliction of duty.

At the moment, Ibas is said to be deliberately refusing to promote Owen but instead pencilled him down for early retirement next week.

Normally, Owen is expected to proceed on retirement in 2026.

The CNS is said to be responsible for the ordeal of Labinjo and his wife, who were detained for one year in an underground cell.

They have now been transferred to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for prosecution.

When SaharaReporters contacted spokesperson for the Navy, Suleiman Dahun, over the matter, he said he was not aware of the incident and declined further comments.

GOFRONT:
I fear person wey no fear the kind of corruption in the Military...

catoluy:
Another ploy to remove Eastern military chief and replace him with a Northerner. They make sure they use a person from his tribe to bring him down and then replace him. Defense, Army and Navy chiefs are all saint abi? Easterners use your brain for once!

LadySarah:
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Nna mechionu!
Everything you blame others for the evil we ourselves committed.
That's how Stella Oduah disappeared with our money meNt to renovate the aIrport yet when probed we cried witchunt. Same as Jonathan who did nada for us.

BTW, those ppl aren't even Igbo abi you don't know your tribal names anymore. What's our business with them. [/s]

DaBullIT:
This is the type I'd story that should gather likes, retweets, trend on internet until Buhari's twitter is too full to ignore

But no, let's go and talk of Nnamdi kanu's bouncer pictures and the already settled Amotekun issue

Lass lass we go get sense

Righteousness89:
No be Today theirs kain thing start in NN!

I don't know of this Matter so I can't say anything on this..

But issues like this have long been in the NN.

People like The former Cns , this Kwara man ( Vice Admiral Adekeye) he was more of Terror chief of Naval Staff... Got so drunk with power and did whatever he liked... Adekeye was a Cns that was a thorn to families.. Only GOD knows what is of him now.. because I am quite sure he will reap his evils..

Righteousness89:
No be Today theirs kain thing start in NN!

I don't know of this Matter so I can't say anything on this..

But issues like this have long been in the NN.

People like The former Cns , this Kwara man ( Vice Admiral Adekeye) he was more of Terror chief of Naval Staff... Got so drunk with power and did whatever he liked... Adekeye was a Cns that was a thorn to families.. Only GOD knows what is of him now.. because I am quite sure he will reap his evils..

slivertongue:
almost all GMB s appointees have skeletons in the cupboard

babyfaceafrica:
It is well.. And this type of man will open his mouth and say buhari is corrupt, when all spheres of government is riddled with corruption... We are worse than the government we voted for.. It seems there are no saints in this country!

Banmeallday:
A Navy that cannot defeat anyone except to help steal and loot like they were always designed to do from the Niger Company days