BENIN CITY – In its poise towards ensuring honest, effective and adequate revenue generation and tax collection as well as their prompt and total remittances to the national coffers in Nigeria, a voluntary organisation, Elite Sheriff Corps (ESC) of Nigeria has held a three-day training for its personnel.

The training, held at the Nigerian Postal Training Institute, Egor, Benin City, Edo State, was for both male and female personnel of the paramilitary outf drafted from different states in Nigeria.

During the training exercise, the officers and men of the ESC were subjected to physical fitness drills, march pass and talk presentation to ensure that they were physically and mentally fit and ready for the task ahead of them.

The bill for an Act for the Establishment of the Elite Sheriff Corps (ESC) and other matters connected therewith has already passed its first reading at the plenary of the Senate.

Delivery a lecture on, “The Importance of Uniform Personnel In Boosting The Economy,” the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Abutu Yaro, represented by the Divisional Crime Officer (DCO), Ogida Division, Benin City, SP Uche Godson, who noted that the uniforms boost personnel’s professionalism, credibility, confidence, brand, easy identification, productivity and give them a sense of belonging to the organization.

The Edo Compol however, admonished them, “be punctual, avoid psychohancy, don’t argue with your superior, obey command, be sincere and diligent in the discharge of your responsibility,” just as he also emphasised mutual cooperation among themselves and avoidance of short cut and laziness.

While cautioning the ESC personnel against demanding reward for every service rendered, Compol Abutu Yaro also advised them to share their experiences among themselves, give official documentation and give priority to all.

In his goodwill message, the State President, The Boys’ Brigade, Nigeria, Edo State Council, Sir Amb. Dr B. J. Braie, observed that though the journey is long, ESC personnel must start with a step and be persistent stressing that they should lead by example.

Noting that there are instances of multiple taxations in Nigeria, Dr Braie expressed confidence that the ESC would stop the anomaly and that Nigeria will be better and greater Nigeria for it.

Earlier in his opening remarks, the Commandant General of Elite Sheriff Corps, Wilson Iyamu (DSP Rtd), hinted, “by the time ESC makes sure that there is honest and transparent 60 percent remittances of revenue generated and taxes collected nation-wide, Nigeria will not need to borrow any fund for national development again.

The Commandant General of the Elite Sheriff Corps, who congratulated the ESC personnel on their recruitment into the corps, disclosed that the bill for the Act to establish the ESC has passed its first reading at the Nigerian Senate.

He prayed that the bill should reach the public-hearing stage before the end of this year and that the leadership of ESC is working relentlessly to ensure the passage of the bill.

The Commandant General of the Elite Sheriff Corps gave assurance that in a couple of weeks, there would be adequate national awareness of ESC.
The three-day training programme, which also featured lectures from some ESC’s superior officers including the National Intelligence Officer of ESC, Dauda Danjuma Damparimi, was rounded off with the presentation of awards to notable personalities at its award ceremony.