The Navy has decried the financial implications of conflicting court orders, bureaucracy and deficient documentation from the judiciary on arrested vessels, which costs the agency about $10,000 daily on maintenance and safety of arrested vessels.
Director of Legal Services, Nigerian Navy Headquarters, Andrew Ekokotu, lamented that the Navy bore the financial strain of maintaining arrested vessels, while giving instances where it faced legal action for either releasing or holding vessels based on contradictory mandates from different courts for up to eight months.
Ekokotu explained that each naval ship deployed to the location of the arrested vessels consumes not less than 33,000 litres of diesel every week as well as other costs in ensuring they do not sink. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria , Mike Igbokwe, called on the National Assembly to provide budgetary allocation for the Navy to meet spending on logistics, as it is entitled to funds from the National Consolidated Fund.
They also recovered 66 cooking ovens, four drums, five speedboats, 15 vehicles, two tricycles, one generator and 11 mobile phones. In the meeting that focused on a status review of the Framework for Seamless Operationalisation of Domestic Crude Oil Supply Obligation Template, they agreed to concede to a mutually beneficial framework with a focus on ensuring that the local refineries were not strangulated with off-the-curve prices.
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