 Carbon national security threats such as illegal, unreported, unregulated fishing in the maritime domain will improve food security, Chief of Navastar Vice-Admiral Immanuel Ogala said on Thursday in Lagos. Ogala made the declaration at the handover of six glass reinforced plastic riverine boats manufactured for the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development by the Naval Dockyard Ltd. Ogala said the boats would be used to access riverine communities to monitor and support agricultural activities and ensure food security. In aid to civil authority is protecting the nation's waters from all these illegal activities. Prominent of them is illegal, unreported, unregulated fishing which has been impacting negatively on the nation's food security. What we are doing here today is one of those efforts, particularly in the area of collaboration with ministries, departments and agencies. We have been doing this over the years, we have been collaborating with the Ministry of Agriculture, we have been collaborating with the State Ministry of Agriculture and fighting against these illicit activities. Now in the dockyard here, we also, I mean as part of this collaboration, construct goods and build vessels that we can use to further this collaboration. What we are doing here today is a significant achievement sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture which is for the dockyard to construct goods which are now handed over to these coastal states, particularly Lagos and Akwaibong state that are here and that are also greatly impacted by this activity. Just like the Chief of Naval Self-Asset, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Environment is very, very aware of all this that is happening and we are ready to collaborate with other states and stakeholders to ensure that these irregular activities that is happening on our waterways are reduced to the very, very minimum and to ensure that we work in collaboration with every other state order to regulate our poster and waterways. The Naval Dockyard Limited has a lot to offer the mission in terms of local content, where we have issues with building badges, with boats, we build offshore structures and also partner with other maritime players, also partner with the dockyard and do some construction and fabrication activities here. So a lot can be done, this is a strategic national asset that has been in the custody of the Niger Navy and this is an asset that the FRAC government must continue to ensure that it is viable and continue to support not just Niger Navy but we support the maritime industry, we support the oil and gas industry, we support the state government, so it's a very