Despite continuous reports of abduction of foreign oil workers by militants, the Nigerian Navy has claimed that efforts of its officers and men along the shores of the Niger Delta region of the country have curtailed illegal activities of the militants.
Speaking in Calabar, the Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Naval Command, Rear Admiral Peter Shola Adeniyi, said �we�ve been doing our best to check the excesses of Niger Delta youths. We have been able to curtail the excesses of the militants.�
�We�ll be able to do much more to check the incursions of the militant youths from entering where we don�t want them to enter, when on-going plans by the Navy are fully implemented. �
Rear Admiral Adeniyi who said the country had assets as far as 100 nautical miles of the West Coast of Africa explained that part of the aims of the annual inspection is to deploy the fleet in the protection of deep sea oil and gas installation especially against terrorist attack.�
Speaking on the five-day series of Naval exercises around the Bight of Bonny, Adeniyi said the Nigerian Navy was capable of checking any form of terrorist attack on Nigerian territorial waters.