The Martin Luther Agwai International Leadership and Peace Keeping Centre says it will increase awareness on maritime piracy and other maritime transnational crimes.
This, it said, would curb crimes like human trafficking, smuggling and terrorism at sea, among others. The resolution was made at a two-week course, titled: “Anti-Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG)”.
The course was organised by the centre with the support from the Government of Japan, UNDP and the Nigerian Army.
The course comprises 30 participants drawn from the Armed Forces and Police of 5 West African countries namely: Benin, Cote D’Iviore, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo, as well as senior para-military officers and civilians from several MDAs including NIMASA, Customs and the academia.
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Speaking during the opening session of the programme, the commandant of the centre, Obinna Onubogu, said the course objective was to build capacity of participants on cross cutting issues related to piracy in the GoG as well as the mitigating factors to enhance national and regional security.
The Chief of Training (Army), Maj.-Gen. Sani Mohammed said, “The Nigerian Army under the leadership of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Taoreed Lagbaja, is focused on transforming training Institutions to international citadels of training and character development”.
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