High Commissioner Raises Sierra Leone flag high at the Nigeria Police Academy.

The outgoing High commissioner Dr. Solomon Momoh Christopher Gembeh Snr. has on Thursday 15th July 2021 made a grand presentation at the Nigeria National police Institute Located at Life Camp in the federal capital of Abuja. The presentation was made possible upon invitation from the Director General of the institute, Prof. Olu Ogunsakin on behalf of the Inspector General of police of the Federal Government of Nigeria. The topic of the presentation was “Strategic Leadership and International Cooperation”. H. E. Dr. Gembeh delivered the well-received public lecture to fifty senior police officers selected as course participants from both Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The participants carried the ranks of Assistant Inspector General (A.I.G), Assistant Commissioner of Police (A.C.P) and Commissioner of Police. Some of these officials are on a two Months long training in “Strategic leadership roles in policing diverse societies” which started on 28th June running through to 20th August 2021.
Sierra Leone is the first country to benefit from a training of such nature from within the sub region and Africa at large and High Commissioner Gembeh is the first from within the diplomatic community to make a ground breaking presentation at the institute. In his presentation, High Commissioner Gembeh explained the essence of leadership at different stratum from political to other institutions like the police force. He underscored the importance of why leaders must collaborate, listen to other views, how they can be compassionate, take responsibilities and above all how they must always be decisive in order to make their organizations better. He highlighted the security challenges facing various countries in current times and how security apparatus like the police can take strategic leadership approach to help address some of these problems. He cited community policing as a key component of policing approach and spoke about the problem of antisocial behaviours that might destabilize the peaceful nature of communities.
Also, High Commissioner Gembeh expatiated on good leadership and on how it can make institutions or organizations better and how bad leadership on the other hand can make them dysfunctional, forcing them to crumble.
The outgoing High Commissioner Gembeh went on to say that although the police have their rules of engagement in dealing with the myriad security problems yet these rules have to be informed by the international law and cooperation that nation states have entered into. At the end of his presentation, the High Commissioner encouraged the law enforcement officers to serve their countries diligently in the dispensation of their duties in protecting lives and properties including securing their personal safety, mindful of the fact that home is home and that the lives of their own families is also important. The Director General of the National Institute of Police Studies (NIPS), Prof. Olu Ogunsakin appreciated High Commissioner Gembeh for honouring the invitation and added that his presentation will help to kindle a renewed enthusiasm for members of the police Force in the two sister countries. Questions and answers formed the high point of the presentation ceremony and left participants, especially those from Sierra Leone, with a high level of enthusiasm and fulfilment for the support accorded to them by High Commissioner Gembeh, the Head of Chancery and other members of the Diplomatic Staff of the Sierra High Commission in Nigeria