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Navy foils pirates’ attack in Rivers waterways, rescue 20 passengers

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Last updated: September 17, 2024 5:26 am
Godson Published September 17, 2024
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The Nigerian Navy Forward Operation Base in Bonny, Rivers State rescued 20 passengers including women and children on the Port Harcourt-Bonny sea route after foiling a pirates’ attack on the Port Harcourt to Bonny sea route.

Commander of the NNFOB in Bonny, Maksum Mohammed who confirmed the incident to newsmen on Monday, September 16, 2024, said the Navy also uncovered a new strategy adopted by pirates to abduct travellers.

Mohammed said intelligence suggested that some of the boat operators may be working with the pirates to launch attacks.

According to him, the boat operators would load fully, get to the entrance of a river midway on the high sea, fake engine problem, and while pretending to be fixing the problem, the pirates would swoop on them and whisk the passengers into the creeks and demand ransom.

He said the latest incident showed a boat loaded with 20 passengers including infants, which he said almost turned fatal.

“This is a clear case of willful endangerment of passenger safety. Why would any mariner in his right senses sail with passengers on board a boat whose engines were outrightly faulty and unable to sustain an hour’s journey?

“And then, we’re also dealing with recent cases of attacks on the river; what if these criminals had seen and approached them and taken them captive?

“What leverage would they have had to escape their assailants? It’s quite unfortunate that hapless passengers could be so exposed to avoidable risks and for the exorbitant amount they pay?.”

Mohammed further said the case appeared to be a simulation, saying the places they saw the boat twice were exactly dangerous places for attacks.

“This is just in case, maybe, there was some kind of a plan because nearly all the kidnap incidents occurred where there was an engine failure or simulation in front of a river mouth, which now resulted in the kidnap as they come out and then pick their victims and carry on.

“We encountered the same boat again simulating another engine failure in front of another river entrance. Simulating another engine failure – as far as I’m concerned, I’ll use simulation – in a place that is also known for kidnap activities.

“It was at that point that we decided to evacuate the passengers onto our boats and continued with the movement”, he added.

Mohammed advised the coastal state governments and Local Government areas to urgently consider deploying ferries on the waterways, especially, the Bonny-Port Harcourt sea route as a safer, sustainable, and subsidized means of transportation.

 

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