General News of Monday, 10 February 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comIvorian navy arrest vessel smuggling 411kg of cocaine to ECOWAS regionplay videoDirector of the ECOWAS Multinational Maritime Coordination Center, Commander Yussif BenningA huge vessel containing 411kg of cocaine smuggled across the Gulf of Guinea was arrested by the Ivorian navy last week through a joint maritime patrol between Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Benin, and other member states. According to the headquarters of ECOWAS Multinational Maritime Coordination Centre (MMCC) in Accra, the arrested consignment was finding its way into the ECOWAS sub-region. “Just last week, out of the information sharing and international collaboration among the member states, Cote d’ Ivoire was able to arrest a vessel that was bringing 4011kg of cocaine into the sub-region. The Ivorian Navy had the information and they were able to arrest that vessel,” the Director of the ECOWAS Multinational Maritime Coordination Centre, Commander Yussif Benning said. He established that since the inception of the ECOWAS Multinational Maritime Coordination program in 2013, more crimes at sea have been detected.

Source: GhanaWeb February 10, 2020 17:07 UTC