For them, it was a stillborn dream. All the hopes and preparations to
be members of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), at the end of the day,
have turned out to be a fruitless endeavour. Up till yesterday, it was a
dream they had all thought they had realised. What more could stand
between them and their ambitions to be members of one of the foremost
security agencies in Nigeria? They had scaled all the preliminary
hurdles that would give them a place in the police college. Having
survived the rigorous training that their chosen calling entails, they
believed, as the cliché goes, that the sky is their limit.
Having received their positing letters to their different places of assignment, each of them was looking forward to an eventful career in the police. But unknown to them, fate has a different design for them. What it had in store for them did not bode well with their plans.
If they had known that their career wish would be the harbinger of their death, perhaps they would have demurred in pursuing further the urge to join the police. But being prescient is one gift God was not generous with. And 13 police recruits who were killed yesterday in an auto crash in Omu-Aran, Kwara State, were among the multitude of His creation that were not imbued with clairvoyance. Like hundreds of others, they had fulfilled all the preconditions and undergone the necessary training to proudly adorn the police uniform
* May their souls rest in peace *.
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