Nigerian Navy kills 6 pirates, injures 1 – Commander

The Commander, NNS Jubilee, Akwa
Ibom, Commodore Isaac Ogbole, on
Tuesday said the joint patrol teams of
Nigerian Navy – NNS Jubilee and NNS
Victory, Calabar- killed six pirates and
injured one .
Mr. Ogbole said this in Ikot Abasi, Akwa
Ibom while briefing newsmen on the
activities of the command.
He said that local fishermen in Ibaka,
Mbo Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom,
briefed the naval officers about the
operations of the pirates in the area.
The commander said the pirates, who
were operating in two boats, pretended as
if the boats were passenger boats. He
said the naval boats had encircled the
pirate boats to check if actually the boats
were passenger boats.
Mr. Ogbole said that when the officers got
to the location as briefed by the
fishermen, the pirates were taken by
surprise as their efforts to engage the
men of the Nigerian Navy in gun battle
ended in their waterloo.
He said that, as the naval officers tried to
examine the boats, the pirates quickly
brought out arms to shoot at the patrol
teams.
“Today, our men – NNS Jubilee, Akwa
Ibom and NNS Victory, Calabar, Cross
River, killed six pirates and seriously
injured one.
“The naval officers behaved as if they did
not have any information about them.
They decided to go past them by
encircling them.
“But the pirates, who pretended as if their
boats were passenger boats, suddenly
brought out arms to engage the naval
operatives. It was at that instance that the
operatives were convinced that the people
were pirates and not what they pretended
to be,” he said.
Mr. Ogbole revealed that the NNS Jubilee
had, in the last three months, raided
illegal bunker hideouts to seize drums of
locally-refined fuel running into millions of
Naira.