The Nigeria Police as part of its School Visitation Programme have held a sensitisation programme for secondary school students in the FCT.
The programme with the theme: Engaging The Younger Minds For A More Secure And Safer Community, featured talk on careers in the Nigeria Police Force, health talk as well as anti-cultism sensitisation among others.
The school visitation, which started with Model Secondary School, Maitama, and Government Secondary School, Garki, is aimed at sensitising and mentoring Nigerian students to make good career choices and save them from derailing.
Addressing the students, Dr. Chinonyere Welle, who shared her experience with the students, said she was motivated to join the Force by a police doctor.
She said it was important for the students to have a passion, something that drives them, noting that her passion as a police doctor was to solve all medical problems of her colleagues to the best of her ability.
While sensitising the students on health matters, she said there was need for them to protect themselves, especially with the resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic, by practicing all the safety protocols.
Also, speaking a Police Pilot, CSP Tesleem Oyewuwo, said he joined the Force accidentally but set an agenda for himself and has continued towards achieving his set goals, even as he urged them not to limit themselves.
Oyewuwo, who said he studied Surveying and Geo-informatics, stated that enlisted to be trained as a pilot in the course of his career and he was trained by Police.
“You can join the Police and move into any of the elite departments and rise to the peak of your career. You can be a police officer and be a doctor, you can be a lawyer, an engineer and a pilot, that way they would be servicing your country while pursuing the career of your choice,” he stated.
On his part, ASP Eristos Asaph, a police lawyer, said he graduated before the joining the Police because he had always had passion for law enforcement.
He explained that, “Law plays a vital role in society. Without law there will be anarchy, without law there will be war. The nexus between police and law is enforceability of the law. Without enforceability the law is a nullity therefore enforceability is very important.”
Speaking on Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV), CSP Ebere Amaraizu said it was an initiatives of IGP Mohammed Adamu to curb cultism and other vices among students.
“It is a community driven programme because we work with different groups. It is different from the usual police work. We mentor you and sensitise you on the consequences of derailing
“You have to stay away from cultism, examination malpractice and other ways of cutting corners. As students you may be under pressure from your peers but you must stay focused,” he stated.
The Deputy Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), for the command, ASP Daniel Ndirpaya, also sensitised the students on pursuing careers as public relations officers within the NPF.
Principal, Model Secondary School, Elizabeth Emagua, and her counterpart in Garki Secondary School, Abubakar Seidi, commended the Nigeria Police for enlightening the young ones on the need to stay away from crime and social vices, noting that social media and cultism were issues of serious concern.
High point of the programme was presentation of gifts, including school bags, text books and mathematical sets, to the students.
