Piracy: Nigeria Navy Assures Of Maintaining Sanctity Of Nigeria Maritime Environment
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Navy, NN has assured that it will continued to employ her surveillance infrastructure to monitor shipping activities within the Nation’s maritime environment and will continue to exploit intelligence to track activities of criminals in order to maintain sanctity of the Nigerian Maritime Environment (NME).
The Navy in a statement signed by Director Of Information, Commondore AO Ayo-Vaughan sighted by NewsRangers has consequently enjoined all seafarers to continue to carry out their legitimate businesses without fear.
While noting that no incident of piracy has occurred within NME and the area is safe for maritime and economic activities, the Nigeria Navy assured that it would continue to sustain credible presence to deter any form of criminality.
“In securing the NME and GoG in general, the NN appreciates the efforts of international partners under the Coordinated Maritime Presence arrangement as well as the support of other maritime stakeholders that play other roles in the collective security of the Gulf of Guinea (GoG),” the statement read.
The Nigeria Navy disclosed that the spate of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) within the last ten years has reduced to an all time low in 2022, noting that while concerted efforts are being made to reduce piracy within the GoG to its lowest minimum, two unfortunate incidences were recorded within the GoG in the last three weeks.
“The first incident which involved the hijack of Motor Tanker (MT) MONJASA REFORMER occurred on 25 March 2023 at a location144 nautical mile (nm) West-South-West (WSW) of Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo. It was later discovered that the pirates abducted 6 crew members from the vessel. The second incident involved the hijack of MT SUCCESS-9 about 306 nm SW of Abidjan Fairway Buoy (FWB), Cote d’Ivoire on 10 April 2023.
“In reaction to the recent spike in piracy incidents in the GoG, the Nigerian Navy (NN) has sustained presence of her capital ships at sea as well as directed operations bases to enhance efforts to dominate their Areas of Operations. It is pertinent to state that the NN vectored Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) GONGOLA to rendezvous MT MONJASA REFORMER in company of NNS KANO and a French Warship to escort the vessel to Lome, Togo,” the statement disclosed.
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