Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) in a bold step towards the full realisation of an integrated surveillance and security architecture to broadly tackle insecurity in Nigeria’s territorial waters has taken delivery of the first special mission vessel under the Deep Blue Project.the

The project also involves tackling headlong the increasing violent piracy attacks and kidnappings in Gulf of Guinea.

Chairman of the Project Monitoring Team for the Deep Blue Project, also known as Integrated National Security and Waterways Protection Infrastructure, Mrs. Olu Mustapha, disclosed this recently in Lagos at a graduation ceremony organised by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) for a new set of C4i system operators.

The Command, Control, Computer Communication and intelligence (C4i) centre located at the NIMASA-owned Nigerian Maritime Resource Development Centre (NMRDC), Kirikiri, acts as the nerve centre for operations and workflow management for all platforms under the Deep Blue Project. The graduation of the C4i operators marks another milestone towards the total commencement of the project.

Mustapha, who is also the Director, Project Services, at the Ministry of Defence, said the essence of the training for the intelligence officers was to ensure adequate capacity to man the assets under the Deep Blue Project, especially with commencement of the receipt of the special assets.

According to her, “The assets of the Deep Blue Project must be manned by competent personnel and that is what we are committed to through various training programmes for different components of the project. This graduation of C4i sysutem operators will produce additional personnel for the optimisation of the system.”

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