Ghana’s Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral GW
Biekro, is convening a conference of senior international Admirals and
naval experts to find solutions to further providing security in the
Gulf of Guinea.
Attending, the Coastal and Maritime
Surveillance Africa (CAMSA) summit on 17-20 March in Accra, will
include Ghana’s Vice President, Minister of Defence and Chiefs of all
military services. Admirals from the EU,South Africa and other ECOWAS
countries will also descend on Accra to discuss the threat of
increased insecurity in Africa’s fastest growing region.
Admiral Biekro said, “The increasing
insecurity in this maritime common is of global concern. Maritime
Domain Awareness remains our major operational challenge in our effort
to secure this large expanse of water…. This is where the relevance of
the Coastal and Maritime Surveillance (CMS) Africa Conference and
Defence Exhibition comes to the fore. We hope to learn new ways and
identify new technologies and partners to deal with the problem of
domain awareness in our waters.”
The Ghana Navy has laid out plans to beef up
its fleet and has already seen some remarkable results, Admiral Biekro
was keen to impress the success of the recent anti piracy missions and
one huge drugs bust:
“Specifically, we arrested MT MUSTARD, which
was observed collaborating with MT COTTON, which had been hijacked off
the coast of Gabon. We also arrested MV ATTIYAH in November last year
which was transporting over 400kg of cocaine to our shores.”
Michael Champion, part of IQPC who is assisting the Ghana Navy in organising the conference said:
“The conference will bring together the most
senior decision makers in Ghana and West African maritime domains,
with all looking to find the next technological solutions that will
assist in their desire to get a complete picture of the legal and
illegal activities in their coastal waters.”
Reference:prnewswire
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