The Nigerian Navy has thwarted an endeavor by suspected privateers to capture and snatch 25 outside nationals on board a Maersk vendor ship conveying general payload to Nigeria.
Instructions writers yesterday at Onne Sea Port, Rivers State, Olusegun Soyemi, Executive Officer of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, said the vessel was berthed securely with the saved group unharmed, reported the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
Soyemi said the team, including the boat’s commander, was of blended nationalities comprising of eight Filipinos, eight South Africans, five Indians, two Britons and two from Thailand.
By, Safmarine Kuramo, a Maersk shipper ship enlisted in Singapore, was transporting general payload from Port-Noire, Congo, to Onne Sea Port in Rivers.
“On January 5 at around 08:00 hours, Safmarine Kuramo was assaulted by privateers around 60 nautical miles off the shore of Bonny Island (in Rivers) Fairway Bouy.
“We got a mayday trouble call that the boat had been boarded by an unsubstantiated number of privateers in the wake of entering the country’s regional waters.
“We promptly dispatched a warship (NNS Centenary) and assault gunboats drove by Navy Capt. Chiedozie Okehie of the Eastern Naval Command to safeguard the circumstance.
“The privateers on locating progressing maritime troops fled the scene because of a paranoid fear of being captured by our agents.
“The operation was to a great extent effective as each of the 25 remote group individuals, including the commander are sheltered and unhurt, while load locally available the boat is in place,” he said.
Soyemi, a naval force chief, said the privateers discharged a few shots at the boat’s control room in an offer to frighten and repress any resistance from the commander and group.
Additionally, the Commanding Officer of NNS Centenary, Chiedozie Okehie, who drove the operation, said the team secured and shrouded themselves in the boat’s fortress (motor room).
He said the salvage was fruitful somewhat because of the boldness and courage displayed by the boat’s chief – a lady.
By, regardless of the chances, she secretly gave the Nigerian Navy briefs while privateers locally available the boat made a few endeavors to break into the fortress.
“Promptly we got to the boat, we completed intensive pursuits of the compartments and lodges to check if any privateer had remained locally available.
“Examinations are progressing to learn what happened and who did the assault,” he said.
Okehie said the naval force under the charge of Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas remained completely dedicated to the security of the country’s conduits and oceanic environment.
The commander of Safmarine Kuramo, Ms. Zetta Gous-Conradie, a South African, depicted the experience as terrible, yet expressed gratitude toward the Nigerian Navy for its brief reaction to her pain call.
“We were exceptionally thankful when the naval force came installed in light of the fact that sooner or later we thought the privateers would take us prisoner.
“The warmth was smothering on the grounds that the temperature was exceptionally hot in the bastion, and eventually my team individuals and I thought we would suffocate and kick the bucket,” she sai
Nigerian Navy Rescues 25 Foreigners
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