Commissioner of Police, Frank Mba and 7 other Senior Police Officers have been awarded Member of the National Institute on Saturday, 3rd December 2022 by the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Plateau State.
Others are AIG Yahaya Sahabo Abubakar, mni, AIG Aishatu Abubakar, mni, CP Abubakar Sadiq Idris, mni, CP Udo Arungwa Nwazue, mni, CP Ebong Ebong Eyibo, mni, CP Lawal Badru Banji, mni and CP Yusuf Suleiman, mni.
The National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru was established by Decree No. 20, 1979, and CAP Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
The Institute is a high-level centre for reflection, research, and learning, with the primary objective of serving as the nation’s foremost policy ‘think-tank’, developing a crop of top-class technocrats of high intellectual capacity, conceptualizing and anchoring the implementation of innovative and dynamic policy initiatives and strategies critical for national development.
Admission into the Senior Executive Course is by nomination and approval by the Board of Governors. The sponsoring organizations include the Civil Service (Federal and State), the Universities and other institutions of higher learning; the Armed Forces; para-military outfits; the organized private sector, like NACCIMA, MAN, NCWS, NLC, etc; and professional bodies, such as the Council of Registered Engineers of Nigeria (COREN); the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA); Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN); Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), etc.
Recall that on the 14th of February, 2022, Commissioner of Police, CP Frank Mba, and five other senior police officers proceeded to the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS, in Kuru, Plateau State, for a nine-month course.
Mba, a graduate of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) also bagged a Master’s Degree in Law at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He was the FPRO to former Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, between n years 2012 and 2014. He was also the FPRO during the administration of former IGP Mohammed Adamu, between 2019 to 2021 and from 2021, when he proceeded to NIPPSS.
In the Nigeria Police Force, officers scramble to attend the course owing to the importance attached to the institute which serves as the nation’s foremost policy think-tank to develop a crop of top-class technocrats of high intellectual capacity, who will conceptualize and anchor the implementation of innovative and dynamic policy initiatives and strategies, critical for national development.
Another reason for the scramble to attend the institute is because,e after graduation, one has the right to add the abbreviation mni at the end of his name
Unfortunately, most officers are deprived of the opportunity as the minimum rank that attends the institute is Commissioner of Police.
Selected participants are expected to have a minimum of five years to retirement before they would be sent to NIPSS.
