The Martin Luther Agwai leadership and Peacekeeping Centre has commenced training of armed forces personnel of African countries on countering piracy.
The goal of the training programme is to consolidate on recent achievements which has translated to no recorded case of sea piracy in the gulf of guinea in the last 6 months.
The gulf of guinea which before now was notorious for piracy has experienced relative peace for sometime now.
The regional cooperation to fight piracy in the Gulf of Guinea is currently yielding results.
The training programme by the Martin Luther Agwai leadership and Peacekeeping Centre is meant to consolidate on these achievements by sharing experience especially with Armed Forces personnel of Other African Countries.
The Training brings together African armed forces personnel to participate in Course 3 of the Counter Piracy Programme of the Centre.
The dynamics of crime, places a burden on the participants to constantly evolve innovative measures of tackling piracy in the Gulf and Other Territorial Waters across Africa.
But the stakes are now higher as consolidating on the peace is in itself a challenging proposition.
Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea was a major source of concern for the nations’ of the World due to the volume of goods and Services that passes through the gulf.
At the height of the piracy and attacks by criminal gangs in the gulf many nations’ from Europe and America and Other parts of the World including China all had Naval Taskforces covering one of the busiest shipping lanes in the World.
The introduction of the Blue Sea project through collaboration between the Nigerian Navy and Nigerian Maritime Safety and Administration Agency, NIMASA, has ensured that the shipping lane in conjunction with the Gulf of Aden formerly referred to as the World’s most dangerous Shipping lanes are now the safest.
The Training programme at the Martin Luther Agwai Leadership and Peacekeeping Centre will serve as a platform of exchange of ideas on how this feat was achieved.
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