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0monnakoda: What is the basis of this belief .
Can you share the source of this agreement

www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/13077/west-africa-turns-limited-resources-to-addressing-piracy-in-gulf-of-guinea
Maritime crime and disorder have plagued the Gulf of
Guinea for decades, as weak and corrupt maritime
security regimes emboldened thieves, smugglers
and traffickers to exploit the littoral realm. The
bountiful vessels serving Nigeria’s oil fields have
presented a particular brand of pirates with a
lucrative array of targets. With piracy no longer
confined to Nigerian waters, however, West and
Central African states have now recognized piracy as
a regional crisis, as highlighted by a June 24-25
summit in Yaounde, Cameroon, to address the issue.
“No country can withstand the growing challenges
individually. That is why we agreed to put our efforts
together to end the illicit activities in the Gulf of
Guinea,” proclaimed Chadian President Idriss Deby.
This shared concern brought representatives from 22
states together to draft a Code of Conduct
concerning the prevention of piracy, armed robbery
against ships and illicit maritime activity. The new
code is based on agreements credited with reducing
piracy off the Horn of Africa and in Southeast Asia,
but the economic, political and security environment
of the Gulf of Guinea presents a unique set of
challenges.
Nigerian piracy declined significantly after a 2009
government amnesty offered cash and security
contracts to Niger Delta militants in exchange for
them laying down arms against the state and foreign
oil companies. While incidents of vessel robbery and
kidnapping have again risen in the Niger Delta, the
more worrying development is the hijacking and full-
scale pilfering of oil tankers that has spread across
the Gulf of Guinea. Operating out of western Nigeria,
criminal syndicates with high-level political and
economic patrons are targeting specific tankers for
hijacking, offloading their cargo to secondary vessels
and then selling the product on a lucrative black
market. This new modus operandi first appeared off
the coast of Benin in late-2010 and subsequently
spread to Togo and Cote d’Ivoire.
The spike in tanker attacks has prompted Lloyd’s
Market Association, a London-based group of
insurance underwriters, to add the waters of Benin,
Togo and Nigeria to their high-risk area where
additional war risk premiums are charged. In total,
the Oceans Beyond Piracy (.pdf) think tank estimates
that West African piracy inflicted between $740
million and $950 million in direct costs on the global
economy in 2012, while a recent symposium of
regional experts contends that the surrounding
countries are bleeding $2 billion annually in lost
revenue.
West Africa has now reached a tipping point, like
East Africa and Southeast Asia before it, where the
geographic expansion of pirate activity demands a
coordinated response. The original model is the
Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating
Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships in Asia
(ReCAAP), an organization drafted by 16 states in
2004 that is credited (.pdf) with reversing the spike
in Asian piracy that coincided with the 2009 global
economic downturn. ReCAAP subsequently served as
the baseline for the creation of the Djibouti Code of
Conduct, an agreement signed by 20 African and
Arab states to combat Somali piracy that has
succeeded in harmonizing piracy laws, resulting in a
higher percentage of arrested pirates now being tried
and prosecuted in regional courts.
Influenced by these previous agreements, the Gulf of
Guinea’s new Code of Conduct calls on signatories to:
share and report relevant information; interdict
vessels suspected of engaging in illegal activities;
ensure those committing such acts are apprehended
and prosecuted; and facilitate the care and
repatriation of seafarers subject to illegal activity.
Most notably, the West and Central African leaders
agreed to create a regional maritime security center,
based in Cameroon, that will facilitate the sharing of
maritime intelligence and research among
governments. Such a center is desperately needed as
upward of 60 percent of pirate attacks in the Gulf of
Guinea go unreported, obstructing regional
authorities from knowing who the gangs are and
where they operate.
The low economic and security capacity that
characterizes much of West and Central Africa will be
a major obstacle for the new counter piracy regime.
The smaller states are attempting to hold the line
with a handful of dilapidated patrol boats, while even
Nigeria, which boasts the region’s largest navy, only
has an estimated 28 percent of its ships operational
at any given time. In terms of force multiplying,
Nigeria has engaged in joint patrols with Benin since
2011, but there is little indication that these types of
operations will encompass additional states.
To address this security deficiency, the International
Maritime Organization (IMO) is establishing a trust
fund that will allow donor states to offset the cost of
capacity-building programs in the Gulf of Guinea. The
U.S. and Norway have been notable supporters of the
IMO’s ongoing programs in the region, and the
European Union would do well to coordinate its new
maritime security capacity-building project through
the same channels as well.
What further international support the agreement
will receive is unclear. At the summit, Ivorian
President Alassane Ouattara called on the
international community “to show the same firmness
in the Gulf of Guinea as displayed in the Gulf of Aden,
where the presence of international naval forces has
helped to drastically reduce acts of piracy.” One must
be careful about reading this statement as a call for
foreign naval deployment, however. The Code of
Conduct explicitly references the principles of
sovereign equality and territorial integrity of states
and that of nonintervention in the domestic affairs of
other states.
The fact that internal conditions within Nigeria have
enabled the growth of organized piracy in the Gulf of
Guinea highlights the limitations that a security-
centric organization will face in combating the crime.
Moreover, the implementation of many aspects of the
Gulf of Guinea’s new Code of Conduct remains
uncertain. However, the agreement is a welcome
starting point. Insufficient maritime security
capacity, a dearth of reporting and information
sharing and the absence of regional cooperation all
helped Nigeria’s gangs extend their reach into
neighboring waters. It is only by regional states
addressing these issues collectively that they will be
rolled back.
James M. Bridger is a maritime security consultant
and piracy specialist with Delex Systems Inc. He can
be reached at jbridger@delex.com.
Photo: Sailors from the Gabon navy learn anti-piracy
techniques, Gulf of Guinea, Feb. 29, 2012 (U.S. Navy
photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class
Felicito Rustique).

Iyfe Namikaze:

someone pls call 911, mr. English has been shot

In your quest to diss me ,you've only succeeded in making a mockery of yourself.....apparently you can't interpret that simple figurative use of speech...olodo

lovetterrison:

come few yrs you go regret this thing wey you type so.

could you please enlighten me

Hmmmmmm, this Nigeria ...

LWKMD

PortHarcourtBoy: Nigeria Navy: 1..2..Romeo Alpha Charlie...This is NNS Akaso with battleship, NNS Okemini sailing towards you at 14 Nautical Miles per minute...identify yasef before we launch our ogunigwe, sorry torpedo...Over!

French Navy: Charlie Piper Romeo...This is MV Bonssour Hollande...Sorry for sailing on ur waters without permission...we are actually here to load stolen crude, sorry crude oil from Total's Amenam Kpono Platform but decided to stroll around the Soku international waters before loading...

Nigeria Navy: Roger that Chairmo...Anything for the boys?? Even if na 20 litres we go manage am...at all at all na him bad pass...

LMAOROTF

The gulf of guinea and the birth of biafra.... At the moment is jointly covered by a joint security agreement due to international piracy incursion. Recently GEJ visited the cameroun and this was highlighted. The nigerian navy is very active within her territorial borders and even the US SEAL know they will be in trouble if they step in... DO NOT UNDERATE THE NIGERIAN MILITARY...THEY ARE NOT NIGERIA POLICE.

Gasmore: The gulf of guinea and the birth of biafra.... At the moment is jointly covered by a joint security agreement due to international piracy incursion. Recently GEJ visited the cameroun and this was highlighted. The nigerian navy is very active within her territorial borders and even the US SEAL know they will be in trouble if they step in... DO NOT UNDERATE THE NIGERIAN MILITARY...THEY ARE NOT NIGERIA POLICE.

Liar. Nigerian navy does nothing at all in those places, the whole place is run my US navy.

solomon111: What is the navy doing about it?
And when did Nigeria became a french colony?

from d day OBJ,ceded Bakasi to Cameroon.

kufre2010:
Incursion into a soveriegn country's territory without a host country's permission is a violation of international law even
though they are there to protect total's property. Government also
should be skeptical when granting them permission because they may be on
spy mission.

what security info would they want that they cannot get , especially
with a bait of few millions of dollars at they disposal? The NSA bosses
will be the ones to divulge such classified info to them.

PortHarcourtBoy: Nigeria Navy: 1..2..Romeo Alpha Charlie...This is NNS Akaso with battleship, NNS Okemini sailing towards you at 14 Nautical Miles per minute...identify yasef before we launch our ogunigwe, sorry torpedo...Over!

French Navy: Charlie Piper Romeo...This is MV Bonssour Hollande...Sorry for sailing on ur waters without permission...we are actually here to load stolen crude, sorry crude oil from Total's Amenam Kpono Platform but decided to stroll around the Soku international waters before loading...

Nigeria Navy: Roger that Chairmo...Anything for the boys?? Even if na 20 litres we go manage am...at all at all na him bad pass...

guy u too much. Make the rest niaja they give themselves fake hope say them get power, shi shi no there yansh! Nigeria fit by combat plane talkless of ship or even aircraft carrier.

NNS Thunder has gone to Australia for an international fleet review.

Backward nation

that's to tell how weak Nigerian navy are @ the international scene.

solomon111: What is the navy doing about it?
And when did Nigeria became a french colony?

"blood and oil"