STORY: NIGERIAN IPOs TRAINING

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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
DATELINE: 10
th
/JUNE/2014, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST

1. Wide shot, Rex Dundun, AMISOM Police Chief of Staff addressing Nigerian
Individual Police Officers (IPOs)
2. Med shot, Police officers listening to Rex Dundun, AMISOM Police Chief of Staff
3. Med shot, Police officers
4. Close up shot, Nigeria National Police badge
5. Med shot, Rex Dundun, AMISOM Police Chief of Staff addressing the police
officers
6. Close up shot, Edwin Mugera, AMISOM Police Public Information Officer
speaking to the officers
7. Wide shot, Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African
Union Commission in Somalia Hon. Lydia Wanyoto Mutende and AMISOM Police
Commissioner Anand Pillay arriving at the training center
8. Med shot, Rex Dundun addressing the gathering
9. Wide shot, Rex Dundun speaking to the officers
10. Close up shot, Deputy AMISOM Police Commissioner Benson Oyo-Nyeko
listening
11. Med shot, AMISOM Police Commissioner Anand Pillay addressing the officers
13. Med shot, Police officers listening to AMISOM Police Commissioner Anand
Pillay
14. Wide shot, AMISOM Police Commissioner addressing the Nigerian police
officers
15. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) ANAND PILLAY, AMISOM POLICE
COMMISSIONER:
Wherever you are posted, we will be monitoring and assessing your
performance. We will also be providing you with the necessary support from our
side at Police Headquarters, to ensure that you are given the necessary support
and assistance to perform your duties.
13. Med shot, Police officers listening to DSRCC Hon. Lydia Wanyoto Mutende
14. Wide shot, DSRCC Hon. Lydia Wanyoto Mutende addressing the police
officers
15. Close up shot, DSRCC Hon. Lydia Wanyoto Mutende
16. Med shot, DSRCC Hon. Lydia Wanyoto Mutende addressing the police officers
17. Wide shot, police officers listening to Hon. Lydia Wanyoto Mutende
18. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) HON. LYDIA WANYOTO MUTENDE, DSRCC:

We are here for a very specific mission; those of us that are from Africa, just to
ensure that there is peace and stability in our sister country and that we also
create reconciliation amongst our brothers and sisters. We are not here to stay,
we have an agenda which is specific, which is 2016, we should be able to go back
to our home countries and allow Somalia to be run and governed in peace by the
Somalis themselves.
19. Close up shot, Nigerian female police officer
20. Close up shot, Commissioner Anand Pillay
21. Med shot, Nigerian police officers listening to Hon. Lydia Wanyoto Mutende
22. Close up shot, Rex Dundun
23. Wide shot, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Akin Fakorede, the
commander of the Nigerian IPOs
24. Med shot, Anand Pillay Commissioner AMISOM police, Hon. Lydia Wanyoto
Mutende DSRCC and Deputy Commissioner Benson Oyo-Nyeko
25. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) AKIN FAKOREDE, COMMANDER NIGERIA IPOs:
A lot of peacekeepers have worked so hard from when the mission begun in
2007 thus far, so we are coming here to see how we can drive the mission
forward, progressively towards peace.
26. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE (DSP)
JUSTINE ENEFU:
We are going to mentor and advise, more especially the women. At the same
time we are going to build their capacity to see how we reform them to be a
better Somali.
27. Close up shot, female police officers
28. Med shot, Police officers at the closing ceremony
29. Wide shot, Police officers at the closing ceremony



STORY

23 officers of the Nigerian Police Force serving under the African Union Mission
in Somalia (AMISOM) have completed a six day induction course as they begin
their tour of duty.

The newly deployed Individual Police Officers (IPOs) including 8 women and 15
men arrived in Mogadishu this week.

The training covered different aspects including understanding the mission
mandate, Somalia and its culture, humanitarian and international law, civil
military co-ordination and dealing with cultural diversity, among others.

Speaking at the closing ceremony of the officers induction training, the AMISOM
Police Commissioner, Mr. Anand Pillay challenged the newly deployed officers to
take their role serious and pledged to give them the support they need.

Wherever you are posted, we will be monitoring and assessing your
performance. We will also be providing you with the necessary support from our
side at Police Headquarters, to ensure that you are given the necessary support
and assistance to perform your duties, he said.

The Acting Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union
Commission for Somalia Hon. Lydia Wanyoto Mutende reiterated the importance
of building the capacity of the Somali government institutions, an aspect key to
the AMISOM exit strategy.

We are here for a very specific mission; those of us that are from Africa, just to
ensure that there is peace and stability in our sister country and that we also
create reconciliation amongst our brothers and sisters. We are not here to stay;
we have an agenda which is specific, which is 2016. We should be able to go back
to our home countries and allow Somalia to be run and governed in peace by the
Somalis themselves.


The officers expressed optimism as they embark on the new assignment and are
hopeful that they will make a difference in the lives of the Somali people.

A lot of peacekeepers have worked so hard from when the mission begun in
2007 thus far, so we are coming here to see how we can drive the mission
forward, progressively towards peace, said Akin Fakorede, the Commander of
the Nigerian IPOS.

Justine Enefu, one of the participants added, We are going to mentor and advise,
more especially the women. At the same time we are going to build their capacity
to see how we reform them to be a better Somali.

The AMISOM Police component is charged with training and mentoring the
Somali Police Force to improve its professionalism and effectiveness. The
component currently draws its Individual Police Officers from Uganda, Nigeria,
Ghana and Sierra Leone.

End.