Chairman, Ship Owners Forum (SOF) Mrs Margaret Onyema-Orakwusi, has said that curtailing poaching in Nigeria and the African Continent will require international collaboration.
Onyema-Orakwusi said this in an interview in Abuja.
According to her, the international community has the market and capability to effectively monitor all activities that take place in the waterways.
She said: “I have always said this, any crime that takes place out there in the sea, the planning is done ashore; they go there, execute and come ashore with their bounty.
“So, with good intelligence, right from ashore, you can arrest what goes on there. You can also trace the movement of the fund through financial institutions.
Onyema-Orakwusi however, urged the federal government to deploy relevant personnel to adequately monitor the territorial waters to ensure security of the waterways.
She also urged the government to be at the fore of all the partnerships going into the sector to ensure that its full benefits were maximised.
“We need to secure our domain; we need to tap on the resources; we need to let it provide employment and earn foreign exchange, it is our own.
“We have also recognised how difficult it is to fight international organised crime and that is why it is important that all hands must be on deck,” she said.
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