Posted on 07/23/2021 11:29:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Nigerian court on Friday jailed 10 pirates for 12 years each over the hijacking of a merchant vessel last year, the navy said, in the second such trial under a new anti-piracy law.
The pirates, all of them Nigerian, were convicted of hijacking the Chinese merchant ship FV Hailufeng II in the Gulf of Guinea in 2020.
Kidnap attacks against ships for ransom have become common in the Gulf of Guinea, which runs from Senegal to Angola, taking in the southwest coast of Nigeria. The perpetrators are usually Nigerian pirates.
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These guys are real lucky; they used to hang pirates!
Their big mistake was hijacking a Chicom ship, Nigerian court knows who is boss.
Nigerian pirate: Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
Female: Who you callin’ da ho? And get your own damn rum, loser. You shonuff don’t look like no Johnny Depp from where I be sittin’.
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