so there are more into this marcus williams is the c.e.o. africa risk on clients in maritime security company focusing on west africa welcome to the show now how serious is wired time piracy in the gulf of guinea compared to other parts of the world. compared to other boats the wild delays serious say the most affected by us. of indian ocean off of somalia but. a lot of attention a few years ago compared to us uk and now has really dropped down southeast asia was against them a letter and since west africa has really hit the headlines most recently with the attacks but it's been an ongoing problem for a long time this year lloyd we've seen 52 major attacks on brussels in the region where the 125 c. 4 has kidnapped not just since the beginning a 1966 attacks last year and with 155 at night so it is a really sure the moment you see attacks are increasing what is the having arise these attacks. the main causes for is a really the problems that are in the niger delta in nigeria. and we're in the world we have 3 main things which are effectively