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Tuesday, October 12th, 2004 HOME | Previous Page Missing ship: Afolayan okays tribunal to try admirals By Chris Agbambu Deputy Bureau Chief, Abuja   Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Samuel Afolayan on Monday signed the instrument convening the court martial to try three rear admirals and other officers indicted by the Board of Inquiry (BOI) on the missing illegal bunkering ship, �African Pride�. Afolayan, who returned from Italy at the weekend where he attended a meeting of the Gulf of Guinea Commission, signed the instrument at about 10 a.m., with signals sent to the five members of the court martial. The court is to be presided over by Chief of Defence Intelligence (CDI) Rear Admiral Joseph Ajayi. Other members are Commandant, National War College, Rear Admiral Amos Adedeji, Deputy Commandant, Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Air Vice Marshal S.E. Itedima, Chief of Policy and Plans (Army), Major General Patrick Akpa and Commandant, Armoured Corps and School, Major General M.A. Garba. Also, two prosecutors were appointed to try the admirals; one naval commodore and one army colonel, both of who are lawyers. The court martial would have commenced the trial on Monday, but could not do so owing to the sit-at-home strike ordered by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). Naval sources confirmed that because of the strike, logistics were not put in place for the court to sit. It would possibly begin sitting in Lagos at the end of the strike. A BOI was set up by Afolayan in the heat of the crisis over the missing ship. Headed by the Flag Officer Naval Training Command, Rear Admiral Okee, it indicted former Chief of Operations and Training, Rear Admiral Francis Agbiti, former Flag Officer Commanding West Rear Admiral S.B. Kolawole,  Deputy Commandant of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC) Jaji, Rear Admiral Anthonio Bob-Manuel and other officers. The BOI recommended that they should face a court martial, and they were all last week transferred to the Naval Training Command (NATRAC), Lagos in preparation for the trial.     Copyright� 2004. All Rights Reserved. Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected] Designed By Powered By DNet.

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