Piracy: Navy Sets Up Patrol Team

The Nigerian Navy has
promised to patrol along the Eastern Atlantic coast with a view to curbing the activities of piracy and other economic sabotage.
Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete It Ibas who stated this during the commissioning/handing over of Naval quarters at Ikuru Town in the Andoni Local Government Area, said that the presence of the Navy was needed in the Eastern waterways to protect the thousands of oil installations in the area.
Vice admiral Ibas who was represented by the Naval  officer  in charge of logistics, Nigerian Navy, Rear Admiral Emmanuel .G. Ofik, also warned youths against indulgement in acts of criminality, and terrorism. He commended the people of Ikuru Town for their support towards the successful completion of the Naval quarters in the area, adding that the presence of the Navy in the community would ensure effective policing of the waterways.
The Chief of Naval Staff also urged men and officers of the Navy posted to the community to cultivate a friendly attitude with the people. In a welcome address at the occasion, the Ikuru community, said that the project was undertaken in recognition of security challenges in the nation’s waterways and commended the Navy for rising to the occasion.
The address jointly signed by the Okan-Ama of Ikuru Town, King A.M. Ikuru and Sir S.H Owonte, chairman Ikuru Town Council of Chiefs, also said that the presence of the Navy in the area would check economic sabotage, insurgency as well as cultism.
“Ikuru Town, Andoni and the Eastern Niger Delta which borders the Altlantic Coast is not an exceotion.
“It gives our people  hope, relief and satisfaction when on daily basis they see the Navy on the seas conducting patrols and survelliance on land, patrol the length and breadth of our territory to ensure that miscreants and people with negative intent don’t habit our territory as safe haven to commit attrocities against the Nigerian State and particularly our people’s’,” it said.