No fewer than 137 serving and retired officers and men of the Nigeria
Police Force including late Sunday Bada, Chioma Ajunwa, former Green Eagles
star, Sunny Oyarekhua and force sports officer, CP Sani Mohammed have been
honoured by Inspector General of Police, M.D. Abubakar in the inaugural police
sports award ceremony on Friday.
The award ceremony held at the force headquarters, Louis Edet House,
Abuja were five different categories, including corporate/friends of the police
award and retired officers for sports award were presented.
Others were; award for police management team, post-humours award for
officers for sports and serving police officers in planning committee award.
A total of 46 officers and men who distinguished themselves in sports
before their death were presented with the post-humours awards. Late force
sports officer, Sanomi Dickens, Sunday Bada, who won 400×4 relay gold medal for
Nigeria at the Sydney 2000 Olympics were among the post-humours award
recipients.
Inspector General of Police, M. D. Abubakar, who presented the awards to
the officers and men, said the Nigeria Police would continue to produce
athletes for the country for international competitions.
He said, “There is no organisation in Nigeria today that can boast of
and is more proud than the police in terms of sports development for Nigeria.”
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