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We Have No Equipment To Fight Niger Delta Avengers,millitary Cries Out by parksland: 5:02pm On Jul 20, 2016 |
T he Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral, Ibok-Ete Ibas, said shortage of ships and inadequate funding has hampered its efforts to secure Nigeria’s maritime domain from activities of economic saboteurs. Ibas made this known on Tuesday when he received members of the Senate Committee on Nigeria Navy at the Naval Headquarters in Abuja. Ibas’ revelation is coming months after a Report claimed that the Federal government had deployed five warships, 100 gunboats and fighter jets to the creeks in combating Niger Delta Avengers. He explained that the present number and mix of platforms in the Nigeria Navy inventory is grossly inadequate to effectively cover the vast maritime environment and support sister Services during joint operations. He added that many old navy capital ships are not operational and require a lot of resources to maintain and the deployment of the few operational ones is also becoming financially challenging. He listed the challenges facing the navy to also include; limited maritime domain awareness capability, inadequate and dilapidated jetties, dilapidated logistics support facilities, weak hydrographic survey capability, shortage of barracks accommodation and inadequate funding. Ibas explained that the challenges have persisted because of inadequate funding of the Nigeria Navy over the years, noting that the trend indicates that while the proposed over head is increasing annually, the amounts appropriated and released are decreasing. He said: “This has impinged on Nigeria Navy’s ability to optimally maintain her fleet for sustained presence at sea among others,” adding that, the same situation applies for capital expenditure. “Such that the Nigeria Navy ability to acquire adequate platforms and other hardware necessary to optimally police Nigeria’s maritime environment has been severely restricted,” he said. In his remarks, IGBERETV gathered that the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Isah Misau said efforts are being made to ensure the Navy is assisted through enhanced budgetary provisions, pointing out that only the sum of N25, 646,409,841 was appropriated as capital expenditure in the 2016 budget for the Navy. He also said the meager sum of N3, 479,967,632 were appropriated as overhead expenditure, noting that: “We are aware that the provisions are inadequate to enable you perform your duties satisfactorily.” |
Re: We Have No Equipment To Fight Niger Delta Avengers,millitary Cries Out by taylor88(m): 5:04pm On Jul 20, 2016 |
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Re: We Have No Equipment To Fight Niger Delta Avengers,millitary Cries Out by Nobody: 5:09pm On Jul 20, 2016 |
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Re: We Have No Equipment To Fight Niger Delta Avengers,millitary Cries Out by theEYe21(f): 5:58pm On Jul 20, 2016 |
That's because Nigeria is broke, and what's the point of fighting NDA? That's just waste of money and resources |
Re: We Have No Equipment To Fight Niger Delta Avengers,millitary Cries Out by parksland: 6:45pm On Jul 20, 2016 |
theEYe21:who is to blame dis time around ![]() |
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