Governor Chukwuma Soludo has praised the Navy and all security agencies operating in Anambra state, for the sacrifices and described their job as a calling that should be respected.
Governor Soludo while speaking when the recently appointed Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla paid him a courtesy visit at the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia, revealed that there is increased need for Navy presence in the State because of the oil theft and bunkering going on at the Ogwuikpele area of the state.
Soludo While commending the Navy and their formidable collaborations with other security agencies, assured of the State government partnering as well as supporting interventions for greater mutual output and safer region
The Governor revealed that notwithstanding the fact that the service does not take cognizance of ethnicity in making appointments but uphold the highest form of professionalism and hierarchy, Vice Admiral Ogalla’s appointment, he said, was greeted with much jubilation in the South East region and commended the President for the goodwill.
“It has become existential threat in the South east, but with your strategic appointment, there is this voice, to uproot the criminals and profile them for who they are.
“We deserve to have a liveable and prosperous Anambra State”, he said.
Speaking earlier, Vice Admiral Ogalla recalled that the Naval Outpost in Onitsha was established with assistance from the state government, assuring that they will redouble their efforts to do more to ensure that peace returns in the region.
He decried a situation where sit at home persists and criminal gangs parade themselves as people who dictate what happens as an aberration with the tendency of drawing the region backwards.
