The Director of
Information (DINFO), Commodore Christian Ezekobe, in a statement said, two
French Warships HPD DIXMUNDE and FF CODUING are leading a French maritime
initiative under the Exercise NEMO series tagged Exercise NEMO 16.5 with the
theme 'Maritime Structure on Securitisation’.
The Exercise is
geared towards sharpening skills in anti-piracy and anti-illegal fishing. The
Exercise also seeks to strengthen a 2013 agreement between the Economic
Community of Central African States and the Economic Community of West African
States to fight piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.
Exercise NEMO is
being conducted in collaboration with the Nigerian Navy as well as navies of
Gabon, Cameroun, Benin, Togo and Ghana among other countries in Gulf of Guinea.
The objectives of
the Exercise include cooperation in the fight against piracy and illegal
fishing in the Gulf as well as testing interoperability between participating
navies. The vessels will carry out several exercises including a simulated
attack on an oil tanker which will be tracked by Nigeria's Maritime Domain
Awareness Capability Systems. Exercise NEMOs activities will be conducted in
our waters between 13 and 16 September 2016 and NNS OKPABANA has been
designated to partake in the Exercise.
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