Senator urges Navy to intensify efforts to protect Nigeria’s waterways

The legislator representing Cross River confederate senatorial district, Asuquo Ekpenyong jr has called connected the Nigerian Navy to intensify efforts to curb expanding maritime crimes successful the South-South region, which is mostly coastal.

Ekpenyong tasked the Navy support Nigeria’s waterways.

The lawmaker spoke arsenic Chairman of the 9th Public Lecture of the Institute of Public Policy and Administration, IPPA, organised by the University of Calabar which had arsenic topic, ‘Coastal Insecurity and National Development: Addressing Maritime Vulnerabilities successful Nigeria’.

Represented by Prof. Uti Egbai of the Unical, the legislator described the lecture arsenic timely fixed the existent information climate.

He stated that maritime insecurity was a captious contented and called connected the naval assemblage to intensify efforts to usage it’s resources and platforms to incorporate and support the nation’s waterways.

Guest lecturer and Commandant of the Naval War College Nigeria, Rear Admiral Mohammed Muye, emphasized that addressing maritime challenges requires politeness, patience and a willingness to collaborate.

He stressed the request for a coordinated attack that integrates information governance with economical improvement done enhanced coastal assemblage engagement, upgrading the capableness of the Nigerian Navy and applicable MDAs, strengthening determination practice wrong the Gulf ...