The Minister of State for Defence Bello Matawalle has presented two hi-tech unmanned water vessels to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
The vessels are to help Nigeria in the fight against insecurity on the country’s waterways.
A Friday statement from the ministry’s spokesman Henshaw Ogubike said the “unmanned ships were a donation by Swift Ship Company in the USA to the Nigerian Government”.
During the presentation of the two versions of the equipment, the S2 and S3 Swift Sea Stalkers, Matawalle said they are the latest technologies that would be deployed in fighting insecurity in the Niger Delta, Lake Chad region, and other maritime regions of the country.
The two unmanned ships were a donation by Swift Ship Company, USA, to the Nigerian government.
According to him, the feat was the gain of his recent working visit to some companies in the United States, adding that the tour was aimed at promoting innovative technologies that would enhance the Nigerian military’s efficiency in addressing contemporary security challenges.
The minister recently visited the United States and inspected NEANY, Swift Ships, and the OCR Global, Hi-Tech military producing hardware companies in the US.
The minister also explained that the idea was to encourage partnership with the US companies in the production of military hardware locally in Nigeria in collaboration with Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria, DICON.
