The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ita Ibom Ibas, who flagged off the operations said that installation of the surveillance infrastructure called Falcon Eye became necessary following the evaluation of the nature of emerging threats around the sea where pirates and oil thieves are becoming more sophisticated and daring in their activities in the sea.
“Government is resolved to secure the Nigerian maritime domain even as emerging threats around our waters by criminal show that pirates have become more sophisticated and daring which demand proactive and timely anticipation of criminal intents and elimination of same. It was appreciated that this could only be possible through availability of continuous surveillance and monitoring of transit and other activities at sea.”
He stated that the Falcon Eye was identified as the system with exceptional potential with capacity to view activities in the sea up to 200 nautical miles which is the reason the equipment was installed at both the Eastern Naval Command and Western Naval Command in Apapa, Lagos to feed the main centre in Abuja.
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