Search intensifies for missing Liberian vessel

The denial is coming on the heels of acknowledgement by the Ghanaian Navy that the piracy attack was the first along the country’s coastal waters.The Deputy Interior Minister, James Agaiga, while denying media reports that the missing oil tanker was whisked off by pirates within the Ghanaian territorial waters insisted that Ghana’s waters was safe […]

The denial is coming on the heels of acknowledgement by the Ghanaian Navy that the piracy attack was the first along the country’s coastal waters.
The Deputy Interior Minister, James Agaiga, while denying media reports that the missing oil tanker was whisked off by pirates within the Ghanaian territorial waters insisted that Ghana’s waters was safe and still remained the safest in the West African coast.
Nonetheless, Agaiga asserted that the Ghana Navy has begun searching for the missing oil tanker.
Reuters News Agency had reported that the vessel MT Fair Artemis, last made contact with its manager, Fair deal Group S.A, at 6 P.M last week after it docked off the coast of Ghana.
The minister, while guaranteeing the safety of Ghana’s waters enjoined members of the shipping business not to be disturbed of using their waters.
Acting Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Armed Forces, Lieutenant Colonel Aggrey Quarshie has said that their officials were still searching for the oil tanker.
He disclosed that a joint operation, consisting officers of Ghana Navy and Air force, including their Togolese and Nigerian counterparts had been launched for the Liberian vessel.