The president and commander-in-chief of Nigerian armed forces, Bola Tinubu, has urged the 478 graduates of 6th Regular Course Cadet, RCC, of the Nigerian Police Academy, Wudil, Kano state to serve Nigeria with honour, courage and compassion.
He stated this while delivering an address at the commissioning of the officers that graduated from the four faculties of the Academy on Saturday.
President Tinubu who was represented at the event by the Vice President Kashim Shetima also urged the graduating cadet to shun excessive abuse of power in their duty post, saying ” you should bear in mind that you are serving our nation.”
“As you graduate, you should remember that you are ambassadors of the Nigerian Police Force serving with passion and respect to fundamental human rights.
“I urge you to serve with honour, courage and compassion” the president stated.
The President also stated that his administration remains steadfast to ensure that Police Force continued to be equipped to improve its services in the area of combatting crime and prevention.
“Our administration remains steadfast to ensure that our police force is equipped to ensure crime prevention and fights in order to safeguard our country.
“We are working to provide vehicles, gadgets and other logistics to the Force to combat crime,” he assured.
Tinubu also stated that his administration is working assiduously toward improvement of the welfare of Police personnel, noting that it will ginger them in their duty of protecting the lives and properties of citizens.
Earlier in his address the commandant of the academy highlighted the progresses and achievements of the academy in terms of curriculum, training and infrastructure.
Earlier in his speech, the Commandant of the Police Academy Wudil, AIG Sadiq Abubakar disclosed that out of the cadets, seven graduated with first-class honours and 128 with upper second-class honor.
They graduated after undergoing five-year rigorous academic and professional trainings he added.
The Commandant disclosed that the academy is set to commence degree programmes in criminology, security and education, adding that it is working towards establishment of faculty of engineering.
He noted that all the courses being undertaken in the academy are accredited by the National University Commission, NUC.