The efforts towards containing maritime crime in the West African region received a boost as European Union promised to deliver an array of security hardware, including 30 rigid-hull inflatable boats and forensic equipment to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) member-states.
The equipment, estimated at €5 million, is expected to help security agencies in Nigeria and 11 other coastal Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) states in combating crime and criminality.
The other beneficiaries include Benin, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Senegal and Togo.
Piracy has become a big issue in the Gulf of Guinea and reduce the volume of business from Europe and other continents to the West Africa region.
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