By Emmanuel Udom / Senior Correspondent, Lagos
on June 2011, Mrs. Carolyn Nleme, then a senior intelligence officer, was compulsory retired from the service of the Defence Intelligence Agency.
Sources alleged that the build-up to the premature retirement for the Abia State born lady, began when she wrote a letter three years ago, drawing the attention of the director of Administration of the agency to the omission of her name in the list of senior officers who were to sit for their promotional examinations.
The letter, according to our sources, appeared to be her greatest sin, as the then Director of the agency, Brigadier-general Efiok Ibonkette, allegedly moved against her and eventually succeeded in signing her compulsory retirement letter in June 2011, which edged her out of the agency.
The decision to write the director may have been the only sin she committed, as the terms and conditions regulating her employment were not duly followed before she was compulsorily retired,” our source said.
Our correspondent further gathered that as soon as the woman was given her retirement letter, she was asked to hand over all properties belonging to the agency and vacate her residence located at Block 58, Flat 1 LSDPC Estate, Glover Road in Ebute Metta Lagos.
Speaking on phone with our correspondent on the issue, the embattled woman said that despite repeated pleas to the agency to reinstate her, since she did no wrong, the plea fell on deaf ears.
“However, I approached the National Industrial Court in Abuja to seek to secure my apartment at the Estate, but my lawyer discovered in the course of court proceedings that the same Brigadier-General Ibonkette claimed to be the rightful owner of the apartment” she said.
She said on phone from Abia State that she has all legal documents from the Federal Government to proof that she is the true owner of the apartment, which the retired director is trying to lay claim to.
Also reacting to the Issue on phone at the Brigadier-General Ibonkette told our correspondent that he may not want to talk much on the matter, since the case is already in court and his lawyers are handling it.
Ibonkette however said that though he has not yet moved into the apartment, he has all documents to show that he is indeed the right owner of the apartment of at Block 58, Flat 1 LSDPC Estate, Glover Road in Ebute Metta Lagos.
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