President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, said Nigeria will continue to deploy significant resources towards tackling Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, adding that in June 2021, the government unveiled $195 million worth of boats, vehicles and aircraft to spearhead the countrys fight against Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea through the Deep Blue Project.
Speaking for the last time as Nigerias President at the 3rd Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Gulf of Guinea Commission (GGC), Tuesday in Accra, Ghana, President Buhari stressed that the theme of the Session: Building a Safe, Secure and Prosperous Gulf of Guinea Region for Sustainable Development, is quite apt and significant towards addressing the challenges in the Region.
President Buhari also said regular meetings among the countries that make up the Gulf of Guinea Commission is a critical route towards achieving peace and security in the region.
According to him, We must remain committed to our regular GGC Summits and the Extraordinary Sessions and use these deep-seated fundamental platforms to essentially continue to work out key modalities that could afford us the opportunity to discuss, identify, support strategies and develop capacities to achieve peace, security and prosperity in the Gulf of Guinea region.
Reiterating Nigerias commitment and steps towards fighting maritime insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea, he encouraged member countries to enact laws against piracy and other criminal acts as Nigeria has done.
He expounded on steps so far taken by the country to further show its steadfastness to the revitalisation and strengthening of the GGC in order to achieve set objectives.
