Anti-piracy security experts have said the unending attacks in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) are a political business sponsored by high network personalities, leveraging on the unemployment rate of trained youths, reports the Guardian.
According to them, governments in the region are frustrating efforts at combatting and eliminating piracy to the nearest minimum, as they have refused to deploy technologies such as, a central control room and the coastguard to complete the efforts of naval presence on waters.
Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea
This was made known during an interview programme on News Central, tagged: “Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea,” following the recent attack on a Danish-owned Liberian-flagged oil and chemical tanker ship about 140 miles west of Congo’s Port Pointe-Noire late last month.
Recall that the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre (IMB PRC) had warned that the Gulf of Guinea is still dangerous despite the recent positive piracy reduction trend achieved by both local and foreign naval operations.
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Source: The Guardian
