NIMASA has successfully tackled the menace of piracy on the Nations territorial waters
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) said one of its most outstanding achievements last year is in securing the nation’s territorial waters in the wake of increasing piracy attacks worldwide.
The agency’s Deputy Director,Public Affairs, Hajia Lami Tumaka, told The Nation that the agency has successfully tackled the menace of piracy on the Nation’s territorial waters.
The feat, the image maker said, was made possible as a result of collaboration the Agency established with the Navy. This partnership with the Navy, Tumaka said, has made the work of NIMASA policing the nation’s territorial waters, especially the Lagos axis, easier.
She also said there has been a drastic reduction of piracy attacks within our territorial waters especially in the Lagos anchorage area. The result of this frustration to the pirates is that they moved toward the Benin Republic area in the course of the past year.
“When they were frustrated out of Nigerian waters, the Pirates intensified their activities in the Benin axis,” she added.
This situation resulted in the Benin Republic leader coming to meet President Goodluck Jonathan asking for Nigeria’s assistance in containing the activities of the pirates,” she said.
Source: The Nation
