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Nigeria protests IMO’s piracy reports
Contrary to the reports of the International Maritime Organisation, IMO, which put Nigeria on the top spot in global piracy rate, the Nigerian Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has said security in the country’s maritime space has been beefed up and improved in the past one year.
Recall that IMO, in its global piracy reports for the first quarter 2018 rated Nigeria as number one in piracy while the second quarter gave further adverse rating of the country’s maritime security situation.
But responding to a question from Vanguard Maritime Reports during the presentation of NIMASA’s half year 2018 reports, the Director General of NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, said the picture painted by the IMO report was erroneous.
He explained that the IMO report should be placed in a context so that observers can understand what is going on.
Vanguard, August 22, 2018
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