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Written by Guy Martin -
AW109 helicopters for NIMASA.
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has received all three of its new AW109 helicopters from Italy and is about to put them into service as part of the Deep Blue maritime security initiative, which will be launched at the end of May.
Director-General of NIMASA, Bashir Jamoh, said this week that the agency had earlier received three helicopters which have been assembled and are being tested prior to service entry. Two AW109s were seen being unloaded in Nigeria in late March.
“These NIMASA special mission helicopters will alongside the special mission aircraft and UAV drone system collectively constitute the air component of our Integrated Maritime Security architecture. We’re committed to policing our waters for our economic prosperity,” Jamoh said in March.