Two months after they ought to have graduated from the Police Academy in Kano, Kano State, Cadet Assistant Superintendents of Police and Inspectors, who went for training there, are still in camp.
The members of the Cadet ASP Course 25 and Cadet Inspector Course 40 have been in camp at the Police College, Wudil, Kano since January 9, 2012.
By schedule, should have been out of camp by June 2013.
The trainees, it was learnt, are already feeling frustrated, training for their passing out on daily basis.
The passing out had been rescheduled no fewer than seven times, with the relatives of the would-be police officers having had to change their travel plans for the ceremony several times.
But more disappointing for the trainees have been the reasons adduced for the change in their graduation day.
Such excuses ranged from the non-completion of some structures in the Police College, which the President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, would commission during the graduation ceremony; to the Ramadan fast; the recent death of Charity Oba, the mother of the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan; and the Special National convention of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Among dates fixed but changed in the past were June 15, June 29, July 6, August 10 and August 17.
New dates of August 30 and 31 or September 2 and 3 have been proposed.
It was gathered that the Police Band, which will supply music on the graduation day, had been in camp with the trainees for about five months, preparing for the D-Day that has refused to come.
It was gathered from some members of the band that they had not been paid any form of allowance in the last four months or allowed to leave the camp.
The training programme commenced on January 9, 2012 at the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano, with Assistant Inspector General of Police, A. Babalola as Commandant.
Babalola has since retired.
A Superintendent of Police, Awoniyi Bamidele, served as the course officer for Course 25 before he was transferred, while a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Ezenwa Onyenkaba, was course officer for Course 40.
The duration of the training, based on the schedule made available to the students, was for 18 months.
The training is divided into three phases.
There is the basic stage where cadets are taught law courses, professional studies, liberal studies and parade.
These are compulsory and have police officers trained in such fields impacting the knowledge.
The cadets are also exposed to taekwondo training for the purpose of self defence.
At the end of the basic training, examinations were written.
The next stage is the intermediate stage where the cadets are supposed to have consolidated on the basic training and are getting used to the police training, trimming out with the early morning physical exercises.
At the end of the intermediate training, examinations would also be written on the courses, which the cadets began in their basic training.
At the end of the intermediate stage, the cadets are to embark on a mobile training either to Gwoza in Borno State or Ila Orangun in Osun State.
For the set in camp now, the training was at Ila Orangun, where they were exposed to more challenging times and rigour.
After the mobile training, the cadets were to embark on a citizenship training at Sherry Hills in Jos, Plateau State.
But the set in camp now never did.
And since March when they returned from Ila Orangun, the trainees have been in camp training daily for the parade that will hallmark their exit from the camp.
There are 263 cadet ASPs and 222 cadet Inspectors in the Kano camp at present.
A new AIG has been appointed to oversee the camp.
He is Baba Adisa Bolanta.
Efforts to reach the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, on the issue proved abortive.
Mba neither took the call to his mobile phone nor responded to text messages for comments for over 48 hours.
A police source, who also passed through the College, said this has become the norm.
The source said there is no year graduating students leave on schedule.
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