File photo of the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi.
The Federal Government on Monday declared that insecurity was a major crisis in the maritime sector, describing it as more complex than the world knows.
It also announced that the President Muhammadu Buhari would inaugurate Nigeria’s maritime security project in June.
Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, announced this in Abuja and stated that the security project would be inaugurated in Lagos, as it would involve the Navy, police, army and State Security Service.
The minister spoke when the Belgium Ambassador to Nigeria, Daniel Bertrand, paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja.
Mr. Amaechi was quoted in a statement issued by his ministry’s Assistant Director, Press and Public Relations, Anastasia Ogbonna, as saying, “The crisis in the maritime sector is insecurity and it is more complex than the world knows.”
The minister, however, told his guests that the Federal Government had come up with a solution that was ready for take-off.
He said if the solution turned out successful, in the near future there would be improvement in maritime security and other countries in the Gulf of the Guinea could adopt it.