THE first batch of women who participated in the Women Armed Squad training exercises for the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) have graduated. Their training included border security and handling weapons.
Speaking at the squad’s passing out parade, Isa Jere, the Comptroller-General of NIS, Tasked the freshly graduating female officers to use the knowledge and training they had received to strengthen their capabilities and get ready for upcoming assignments.
Jere was represented by an Assistant Comptroller-General, Mr Usman Babangida, at the passing out parade ceremony at the NIS training school, Ahoada in Rivers State.
He gave the officers orders to guard the nation’s borders and guarantee that the residents’ lives and property were effectively protected.
Tony Akuneme, the spokesperson for the Service in a statement revealed this in a statement made in Abuja.
Jere said, “today’s event is another innovation. “It will further enhance our capacity to effectively deploy our personnel to critical areas of national assignment as may be required from time to time.
“Today, we are witnessing the Passing Out Parade of 61 officers, all female, who have undergone rigorous physical training on weapons handling among others.
“These officers have indeed demonstrated their readiness and capacity to stand toe-to-toe with the male as they go out there to serve our fatherland.
“May I also inform you that the service presently has over 1000 personnel undergoing the pre-basic training programme in Immigration Training School, Kano and the Customs Training School, Goron Dutse, Kano.”
The C-G stated that the main goal of the training was to ensure that the personnel were prepared both physically and mentally to compete favorably with their colleagues around the globe in the execution of key immigration duties.
