MY Attention was drawn to a publication I read in an online newspaper credited to one Miss Ruth Ogunleye, a discharged female soldier of the medical Corp of the Nigerian Army, trying to accuse General Gwabin Musa of advising her to endure alleged sexual abuse she was going through in the service.
In the said article, she alleged that at some point in her travail of seeking for redress from the authorities in the Nigerian Army over alleged sexual assault by one Colonel I.B Abdulkareem, she said she did approach the present Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Musa.
Though, not CDS at that time, she alleged that General Musa asked her to “bear” or tolerate the abuse in the service as one of the usual occurrences in the Army. This triggered something immediately in me and reminded me that Miss Ruth is probably talking about someone else or she is talking by another spirit”. Certainly not General Musa because of my earlier encounter with the General.
In 2013, while I worked at Hotel 17 in Kaduna State as a duty manager, on one occasion, a colonel took extra accommodation outside what was officially allotted to him with a promise to pay. He was given the accommodation but upon checking out, he refused to pay for the extra accommodation he took on the argument that the room is in the category that ought to be given to him at that time. We had more than 50 colonel or equivalent of his mates. They came for a promotion course at Jaji in Kaduna State, lodged in Kaduna city because of maybe lack of inadequate accommodation for that size of course participants at the Jaji cantonment.
We at Hotel 17 Kaduna got a size of the total number, others were lodged elsewhere. The said colonel and the CDS were mates at that time. It was colonel CG Musa I reported to who promised to sort it out and the colonel eventually paid the money. So I believe the CDS cannot ask her to Ruth “bear” abuses from a fellow Army officer as she claimed. The CDS does not get involved in a matter he will not see to its conclusion or waive aside something he knows is very important and can be of great importance and the things to right to do.
Later on, he was promoted Brigadier General and made Commandant depot Zaria. I called him that I have two persons who wanted to join the Nigerian Army. He was glad and asked that I send their details which I did. One of the two refused to write the exam needed for entrance, the other wrote but failed. When I pressed that they be taken despite that one of them didn’t pass the entrance exam, he was mad at me seriously because He does not like manipulation.
I had to apologise and he forgave me. General Christopher Gwabin Musa is a very straightforward man who fears God and a principled man. General Musa I know can take bullets for innocent Nigerians in the interest of justice.
