Oil Theft: Naval Chief promises tough days for oil thieves, drag baron, smugglers, sea pirates …vow to deal with lazy personnel, reward excellence, professionalism

The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Rear Admiral Awwal Gambo, has vowed to introduce policies and measures to sanction Nigerian Navy personnel who showed signs of laziness and ineptitude during service while promising to reward those involved in acts of gallantry, professionalism and excellence in service to the nation.

He also warned personnel to avoid any act capable of tarnishing the image of the Nigeria Navy and those found colluding with economic saboteurs, drug traffickers/barons, bandits and kidnappers to perpetrate their nefarious acts will be fished out and dealt with decisively.

Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Rear Admiral Awwal Gambo on Wednesday in Yenagoa during a familiarization visit to the headquarters of the Central Naval Command, also noted that despite the facts that the Nigerian Navy is expanding in operations and adopting more decentralization of administration to principal staff, the Navy will not hesitate to drop principal staff founding wanting in handling responsibilities.

Rear Admiral Gambo however the Nigerian Navy has hit the ground running in fulfilment of the Presidential order to all security chiefs and formation to reverse the worrisome security situation in the country with visits to all Naval formations and assessing the readiness to tackle such security challenges, ”Nigerians are not patient and they want quick action and now now .We have started and hit the ground running.”

He also unveiled the new Maritime policy under his administration to include the improvement of the nation’s maritime domain in line with Presidential order, “professionalism is needed and good conduct must be upheld alongside discipline and integrity. While efforts are being made to improve welfare, I shall not hesitate to review values and contributions of every personnel in the line of duty.”

He also promise to improve the maintenance capacity of the Nigerian Navy and frowned at the non-optimal use of technical officers of the navy noting that civilian technicians are used for navy repairs instead of the technical personnel doing the needed jobs.

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