The retired Deputy Comptroller General of Immigration Service (NIS), Hajia Sadat Hassan, has charged officers and men of the Service to always demonstrate acts of patriotism in the discharge of their duties.
Hassan reminded the officers that the fact that they are law enforcement agents does not in any way place them above the country.
Rather, she said they must always subject themselves to service rules, irrespective of the beats they were deployed to serve.
Hassan spoke at a pull-out ceremony held in her honour by the Kwara State Command of the Nigerian immigration service held at the command’s annex office at the Federal secretariat, Ilorin on Saturday where a book in her honour titled ” The Silent Amazon: Sadat Hassan; Life Of A Compassionate Officer” was unveiled.
She thanked President Bola Tinubu, the Comptroller -General of Immigration Service, Mrs Caroline Adepoju and the Kwara state governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for the support they accorded her while in the service.
In his book review, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Ilorin, Hassan Salihu, described the honoruree as a model worthy of emulation by the young generation.
Earlier on Friday, the Emir of Ilorin, Alh Ibrahim Sulu- Gambari had listed the retired DCG and the late Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, Gen. Tunde IdiAgbon amongst those to be inducted and unveiled in the community’s hall of fame.
The Emir said the duo in particular and other eminent sons and daughters of Ilorin Emirate who have distinguished themselves in their various fields will soon be inducted into the community’s hall of fame.
Hajia Sadat Hassan was the first female indigene of Ilorin emirate to attain the position of a Deputy Comptroller General of Immigration.
Sulu- Gambari dropped the hint during a thanksgiving prayer organised in honour of Hassan, held at the emir’s palace, Ilorin.
The royal father said he was proud that Hajia Hassan apart from being the first Ilorin female indigene to have attained the position, also retired with an “unblemished record in her service to her father’s land.”
He implored sons and daughters of the emirate to always show love and kindness to one another and allow the spirit of oneness and unity to always bind them together.
The prayer which was led by the Chief Imam of Ilorin, Sheikh Muhammad Bashir Salihu was attended by the spouse of the retiring immigration officer, Alhaji Hassan, foremost Nigeria’s Hollywood star, Alhaji Adebayo Salami, grand Khadi of Kwara state, Justice AbdulLateef Kamalden, Zana of Ilorin, Engr. Yusuf Lanre Sagaya, Nigeria’s former Ambassador to Netherlands, Amb. Nimotallahi Akanbi amongst others.
Also in attendance were top immigration officers from within and outside Kwara command of the immigration.
