Aiteo Global Group has donated 50 assault gunboats made up of 21 gunboats, 14 operational patrol boats, seven houseboats and four airboats to the Nigerian Navy to fight oil theft, piracy and sea robbery in the nation’s territorial waters. The Navy also received four high-speed interception inshore patrol boats, long-range surveillance drones and six high definition cameras.
The equipment was handed over to the Navy at a ceremony in Port Harcourt on August 4, 2021. The Chief of Defence Staff, Major-General Lucky Irabor and Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo led senior Defence Ministry officials, armed forces personnel, officials of the Rivers and Bayelsa State governments as well as traditional rulers to the special event.
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