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Akwa Ibom state police commissioner has given his men an order and it must be obeyed.
Akwa Ibom state police commissioner has given his men an order and it must be obeyed. Any police officer in his command who does not become computer-literate before December 21, 2008, may find himself celebrating the coming Christmas at home as a bloody civilian.
The commissioner, Mr. Mike Zuokumor handed down this threatening directive last week while declaring open a two-month computer training programme organized by Kubito Technical Services and Netlinks Computer Solutions Limited in Uyo, and explained that any police officer who refused to acquire knowledge in basic computer operations before the stipulated date, has no business being in the Force before the end of the year.
He said that the importance of information communication technology to the job of the police could not be overemphasized, adding that documentations are currently done with computers in the current age.
The CP said he was satisfied with the training programme, which he said was the initiative of the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, and called on his men to take advantage of the ICT training programme in order to be in line with the emerging global information society.
'If you are not computer-literate, you cannot be in the Force after December 21, this year. The command is ready to support you to be computer-literate and that is why you must take advantage of this training programme.
'It is better to be unborn than to be untaught. The knowledge you will get from this training will help you in your current work and other areas," Zuokumor stated.
The Managing Consultant of Netlinks Computer Solutions, Mr. Attai Albert Akpan described the world as ICT-driven and added that the Nigeria Police could not be left outside these confines.
Akpan said that the two-month training would afford the police the opportunity to know how to save vital documents without the necessity to carry files about.
'Apart from using the computer to identify fingerprints, it could also help the police in other contemporary challenges posed by crime and insecurity,"he said.
He urged the police officers to take the programme seriously in order to benefit from the numerous gains which the skills of operating a computer would afford them.