The Nigerian Navy through its newly launched Operation Delta Sanity has made a major milestone with the arrest of a syndicate of 13 crew members on board a Ghanaian owned and registered vessel known as Motor Tanker (MT) Sweet Miri on February 25.
Navy spokesman, Rear Admiral Ayo Vaughan who made the disclosure yesterday noted that the arrest of the ‘economic saboteurs’ who are bent on stealing the nation’s natural resources was made at about 174 nautical miles (320km) off Nigeria’s coast heading towards Benin Republic, after the vessel was observed to have switched off her Automatic Identification System (AIS) in a bid to evade detection. “The vessel infraction contravened the International Ships and Port Security Code and she was tagged a “Vessel of Interest” (VoI
Nigerian Navy Operation Delta Sanity Arrest Crew Members Ghanaian Vessel Natural Resources Theft Automatic Identification System (AIS)
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