By Daniel Tyokua
Police officers have been urged to unite in the task of securing the Federal Capital Territory.
The Superintendent of Police and retiring Divisional Police Office in charge of Federal Capital Territory Administration secretariat and its environs, Rahama Umar asked the men and officers to always be there for each other, in the pursuit of their core mandate of policing the city.
Mrs Umar who retired after 35 years in service, said that Police work is a team work, as no one can do it alone, urging senior officers to always be up and doing through hard work and patient while putting subordinate personnel through the job.
According to her, police work is a team work, “so you can’t do it alone. You have to go with others , so I thank my subordinates and junior ranks – we were always there for each other”.
On her relationship between her Division and the FCT Administration while in service, she said : “We were all good to each other – from the FCT Security Department to other stakeholders. We are attachees to the complex, but we are the overall number one security.
“When anything happens – whether in the night or day, my phones are open 24/7, they call my lines; or they have any security report, they will call me direct, saying beef up security, this is what is going to happen. And I will call my personnel, let us act and the situation brought under control. It is not my doing, but it is the grace of God.
“My advice to my successor is that she should be patient and carry everybody along, put the personnel through the job, and she herself should be up and doing. Let her not sit down in the office, just waiting for her subordinates to do it for her, so she be up and doing by visiting them, talking to them and organising lectures”
SP Umar, who joined the Police on the first May, 1987, and retired on Sunday, First May, 2022, said : “I thank God for seeing this day alive- physically alright and I’m bouncing out physically to my family. I thank the FCT Minister for being there for me, because if there is anything concerning the personnel, I would run to him, and he will always answer me”.
She retired as a Division Police Officer posted to FCTA Secretariat complex, which houses the office of FCT Minister and top officials of the FCTA as well as the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Ecobank.
