By Yusuf Bello
The Director-General of National Taskforce on the Prohibition of Illegal Importation/Smuggling of Arms, Ammunitions, Light Weapons, Chemical Weapons, and Pipeline Vandalism. (NATFORCE) Dr. Baba Mohammed has welcomed a delegation from Israel to train the management staff and operatives of NATFORCE Nationwide.
The long-awaited delegation from Israel finally arrived at NATFORCE Head office on Thursday a statement signed by Paul Efiong, head media and Publicity and made available to SINL Nigeria Online said.
“As part of its technology transfer, NATFORCE in addition to local training arrangements has also initiated and concluded arrangements for comprehensive training of its workforce by ETOS Company, a world-renowned International Security Trainer Organization”.
ETOS, according to reports has trained several security establishments including the military within and beyond African shores.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ETOS, Mr. Eyal Tal in his brief remarks during the visit promised engaging high-tech security equipment along with artificial intelligence to maximally accomplish the goal of the training.
In his address during the epoch-making event, the Director-General of NATFORCE, Dr. Baba Mohammed explained that ETOS Company can offer the Management Team and Operatives of his organization the professional training they deserve.
To fast track the training for the optimal benefit of all, the DG NATFORCE, Dr. Mohammed had set up a Committee that comprises experienced retired and serving military personnel to deliberate on the date of training commencement, duration, venue as well as logistics needed.
NATFORCE boss expressed optimism that the training will bring a huge success story to the Federal Government in her bid to combating banditry, illegal arms proliferation and insurgency in Nigeria.