This was disclosed yesterday by the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, during the media briefing at naval headquarters,
Abuja, to mark the Nigerian Navy (NN) Diamond Jubilee Celebration Ibas who was represented by the Chief of Policy and Plans, Rear Admiral Jacob Ajani, said tackling the ongoing bombing of oil facilities and pipelines in the Niger Delta, requires a holistic approach and combined force from all the security and intelligence agencies.
He said, President Muhammadu Buhari is therefore giving political backing to the existing structure within the gulf of guinea for the maritime security of the region. He said: “The bombing of pipe lines, some are onshore as we know.
So the holistic approach to solving these problem involves Nigeria Navy, but we are also co-operating with sister services and security agencies, towards addressing this problem. “What you cannot take away from the Nigeria navy is that the issue of piracy at sea, since we mounted this operation has declined tremendously and that gives credence to the fact that ‘Operation Tsare Toku’, so far has been effective and we are still reinvigorating our activities in that area and I am sure soon the story we would hear good news.”
“Concerning the pronouncement by the president: before now, I talked about many cooperation initiatives which exist among Nigeria and navies of Gulf of Guinea, one of which was what resulted in the release of the hijacked vessel.
“There is existing cooperation among our navies, what the president is saying is to give effect and political backing to what already exist, and probable to further convince the public that, as it is done in the North-east, even in the maritime frontiers we are co-operating with our neighbours because as you are aware, security is the concern of everybody more so at sea which does not have well defined boundaries as on land,” he remarked.
-Thisday
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