Deep Blue Project : 80 % of Assets Required For Take Off Of Total Spectrum Maritime Security Architecture To Be Deployed By June - Dr Dakuku Peterside

Deep Blue Project : 80 % of Assets Required For Take Off Of Total Spectrum Maritime Security Architecture To Be Deployed By June - Dr Dakuku Peterside

In an effort to comprehensively tackle insecurity on Nigeria’s territorial waters and exclusive economic zone, the Federal Government will today receive some of the maritime security infrastructure for the Integrated National Security and Waterways Protection Infrastructure, also called the ‘Deep Blue Project’



The Director-General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), during a press briefing recently in Lagos, on the Deep Blue Project, said 80 per cent of the assets required for the take off of the total spectrum maritime security architecture would be deployed by June.

Giving a breakdown of the assets being installed under the Deep Blue Project, Dakuku revealed that a good number of the assets had arrived the country, including six interceptor boats and a special mission vessel.


The Director-General also disclosed that the first special mission aircraft will be in the country before the end of the first quarter of the year, while six armoured aircraft were already in the country, and the first unmanned aerial vehicle would come in before the end of February.