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Home » Naval Commands’ Deploy Ships, Helicopters In ‘Ex Beni Kekere’ Sea Exercise

Naval Commands’ Deploy Ships, Helicopters In ‘Ex Beni Kekere’ Sea Exercise

by Joshua
August 2, 2021
in Maritime safety

The Nigerian Navy (NN) says that eight ships, two helicopters, Maritime Domain Awareness facilities and elements of the NN Sea Boat Service (SBS) will participate in the ‘Ex Beni Kekere’ sea exercise.

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The Flag Officer Commanding, Eastern Naval Command, Rear Adm. Sanusi Ibrahim, inaugurating ‘Ex Beni Kekere’ in Port Harcourt last week.

The Flag Officer Commanding (FOC) Eastern Naval Command, Rear Adm. Sanusi Ibrahim, said this on Monday in a statement signed by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Commander Thomas Otuji.

The Joint Eastern and Central Naval Commands had inaugurated the sea exercise in Port Harcourt, Rivers.

Rear Adm. Ibrahim said that the sea exercise would also include anti-piracy operations, protection of oil facilities, as well as search and rescue operations.

“The exercise nicknamed “Beni Kekere” meaning ‘Water Protection’ in Ijaw language aptly captures the primary responsibility of the NN, which is to protect Nigeria’s maritime environment against all threats.

“The exercise involves a multi-faceted deployment of the two Commands’ assets both at sea and in the backwaters, and is aimed at demonstrating our operational capabilities to securing our contiguous Areas of Responsibility (AoR).

“Our area of responsibility falls within the Niger Delta region in line with the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Awwal Gambo’s Strategic Directive 2021,” the FOC said.

Rear Adm. Ibrahim said that the exercise would equally present an opportunity for the NN to showcase its commitment to the regional security arrangement in the Gulf of Guinea of which Nigeria is a major stakeholder.

“Nigeria’s maritime domain is dominant in the Gulf of Guinea with its enormous resources and it remains strategic to our national security and development.

“We are also conscious that these resources have been persistently threatened by piracy, sea robbery, crude oil theft and illegal bunkering as well as illegal unreported and unregulated fishing among other crimes.

“The NN and other security agencies have achieved landmark feats in curtailing these threats, the persistence of the perpetrators requires us to re-strategise in order to consistently deny them freedom of action,” he said.

The FOC said that it was in this regard that the Eastern and Central Naval Commands were embarking on the joint exercise , which he said was the first of its kind in recent years.

“This is to consolidate on the successes of the ongoing Operation CALM WATERS.

“Concurrently, the operational bases and Naval Security Stations (NSS) in the two commands will conduct clearance operations against criminals’ hideouts, and illegal refineries in the ‘Backwaters’ in collaboration with Op DELTA SAFE.

“I am positive that the joint exercise will add impetus to the CNS aspiration for improved maritime combat readiness of the NN through training,” Ibrahim said.

He said that the sea exercise would equally provide the necessary ‘bite’ to the Nation’s anti piracy law that was recently passed by the National Assembly.

He recalled that a Federal High Court passed judgement against 10 notorious pirates arrested by the NN on May 15.

“On behalf of the Eastern and Central Naval Commands, I express our profound appreciation to the CNS for providing the necessary support for the execution of this exercise.

“We shall continue to work assiduously to accomplish the NN’s quest for a safe and secure maritime environment,” the FOC said.

Also, the FOC Central Naval Command, Rear Adm. Kennedy Egbuchulam, said that the reason for the maiden joint operations was because criminals at sea do not respect defined sea boundaries.

“Several times, criminals in the pursuit of their crimes used to criss-cross the defined boundaries between the two commands.

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“The essence is for us to enhance our collaboration and inter operability which will give us a greater cooperation in the cause of our going after these criminals that operate in our waters.

“Therefore, we will collaborate together such that wherever the criminals are, whether in the Eastern or Central Command, we will be good to get at them,” Egbuchulam said.

Also speaking, Commodore Olusanya Bankole , the Officer in Tactical Command, Fleet Commander, Central Naval Command, said that the exercise would include six port operational bases.

Commodore Bankole said that five of the ships had already departed on Sunday for the sea exercise and that they would be joined by others.

“We also have the air assets and elements of the SBS that will be deployed with us and the exercise is of a continuous nature. ”

“I thank the FOC’s for allowing us to deploy the assets under their command and assure them that the assets will be used justifiably,” he said.

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