Navy seizes 1.9 tonnes of cannabis, arrests 25 stowaways in Lagos

The Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS, Beecroft has seized astir 1.9 tonnes of cannabis successful abstracted operations and arrested 25 stowaways recovered aboard commercialized vessels wrong its country of work successful Lagos and surrounding waters.

The commandant of NNS Beecroft, Commodore Adams Aliu disclosed this connected Wednesday during a maritime stakeholders’ gathering astatine the officers’ messiness of the Western Naval Command successful Apapa, Lagos. Participants astatine the gathering called for greater practice to tackle information threats affecting maritime operations and surrounding communities.

Aliu said the seizures and arrests formed portion of the navy’s efforts to curb cause trafficking, smuggling, amerciable bunkering and different transgression activities successful the maritime environment.

He described the information concern successful the country arsenic mostly calm but stressed the request for continuous surveillance and stronger collaboration among information agencies, maritime operators, authorities authorities and big communities.

Providing details of the operations, Aliu said naval unit recovered 5 ...