The National Assembly is planning to initiate legal frameworks to break the monopoly of the Nigeria Navy, NN, in the policing of the nation’s blue water and deep sea, where the economic assets of the country in the oil and gas sectors are located.
The chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Upstream, Hon. Alhassan Ado Doguwa, made this disclosure during the weekend when he led his colleagues, drawn from seven relevant oil and gas committees of the House, on an inspection of the two oil bunkering vessels – MT KALI and HARBOR SPIRIT, impounded by Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, TSSNL, headed by a former militant commander in the Niger Delta Tompolo, in conjunction with the special task force set up by the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Oglala, made up of all government security agencies, GSAs, at Oporoza, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta state.
The 26 federal lawmakers were accompanied on the visit and briefed on the activities leading to the arrest of the vessels by Tantita’s executive director, operations/technical services, Warriedi Enisuoh.
Although Ado Doguwa did not directly state that the action was aimed at halting the monopoly in policing the nation’s blue waters, newsmen recalls that the Navy had hitherto enjoyed the exclusive right to police the country’s blue waters and deep sea.
