New FOC Charges Officers To Be Result Oriented, Takes Over Mantle Of Leadership

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The new Flag Officer Commanding (FOC) Western Naval Command, Rear Adm. Mustapha Hassan has charged officers of the command to be result oriented stating that the task ahead was enormous.

Hassan gave this charge during the handing over and taking over ceremony which held on Wednesday at Western Naval Command, Apapa, Lagos State.

Hassan took over the mantle of leadership as the 44th FOC of the command from Rear Adm. Mohammed Abdullahi.

The FOC said that officers should buckle up and double their speed stating that there was a lot to be done which required utmost seriousness.

"I urge you to up your game and I promise to improve your welfare so that the task ahead will be tackled with utmost seriousness," Hassan said.

Also speaking, the outgone FOC, Rear Adm. Abdullahi called on officers of the command to give Hassan thesame cooperation he was accorded during his tenure.

Abdullahi has been appointed the Director, Department of Equipment Standardization and Harmonization at the Defense Headquarters after his three months tenure as FOC, Western Naval Command from July 9 to Oct.11.

He said that the command, under his watch, made significant contributions by way of arrests of persons dealing in various forms of illegality.

"I came, I saw and I conquered and I have contributed my quota to the growth of the command and the Nigerian Navy at large," the outgone FOC said.

Abdullahi thanked the Almighty God for how far he had come in his career journey.

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