Navy Establishes Full Investigation On Death Of Civilian Staff

The Nigerian Navy has announced full investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of its civilian staff, Mr Ifeanyi Richard Onumaegbu.

This is contained in a statement by Commodore Adams Aliu, on behalf of the Chief of the Naval Staff, and obtained by Africa Investigative Magazine.

Adams Aliu said the deceased was an integral part of the Nigerian Navy family as a civilian staff of the Ministry of Defence, attached to the Laboratory Department of the Nigerian Navy Reference Hospital, NNRH, Ojo, Lagos since 2009 and served meritoriously.

He stressed that on the 31 March 2024, he was found lifeless in his office at NNRH and a preliminary investigation revealed that 4 days earlier, on 26 March 2024, the deceased was involved in an altercation with a civilian lady and some NN personnel in Navy Town barracks.

Meanwhile, all suspected personnel and the civilian lady involved in the previous altercation were identified and are currently under close custody.

Commodore Adams Aliu says the Nigerian Navy facilitated the movement of the deceased’s body to a reputable government hospital in Lagos based on the request of the family for an autopsy.

The statement assured the deceased’s family and general public that all necessary measures would be implemented to unravel the cause of death, adding that any person found culpable would be prosecuted according to extant laws.