STORY: AMISOM honours police officers for efforts in

stabilising Somalia
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DATELINE: 22/FEBRUARY/2020, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Wide shot, AMISOM Individual Police Officers (IPOs) saluting as the anthem
plays during the medal parade ceremony
2. Wide shot, AMISOM Police Senior leadership led by AMISOM Police
Commissioner, Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP), Augustine
Magnus Kailie, saluting as the anthem plays during the medal parade
ceremony
3. Med shot, AMISOM Individual Police Officers (IPOs) saluting as the anthem
plays during the medal parade ceremony
4. Close up shot, AMISOM Individual Police Officer (IPO) salutes as the anthem
plays during the medal parade ceremony
5. Med shot, AMISOM Individual Police Officers (IPOs) saluting as the anthem
plays during the medal parade ceremony
6. Med shot, AMISOM Individual Police Officers (IPOs) standing at attention as
the anthem plays during the medal parade ceremony
7. Wide shot, MISOM Individual Police Officers (IPOs) saluting as the anthem
plays during the medal parade ceremony
8. Wide shot, AMISOM Police officers saluting as the anthem plays during the
medal parade ceremony
9. Wide shot, AMISOM Individual Police Officers (IPOs) saluting as the anthem
plays during the medal parade ceremony
10. Med shot, AMISOM Police Senior leadership led by AMISOM Police
Commissioner, Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP), Augustine
Magnus Kailie, saluting as the anthem plays during the medal parade
ceremony
11. Wide shot, AMISOM Individual Police Officers (IPOs) saluting as the anthem
plays during the medal parade ceremony
12. Wide shot, AMISOM Individual Police Officers (IPOs) listening to the opening
remarks during the medal parade ceremony
13. Wide shot, AMISOM Individual Police Officers (IPOs) listening to the opening
remarks during the medal parade ceremony
14. Close up shot, AMISOM Individual Police Officer (IPO) listening during the
medal parade ceremony
15. Med shot, AMISOM Individual Police Officer (IPO) listening during the medal
parade ceremony
16. Wide shot, AMISOM Individual Police Officers (IPOs) listening to the opening
remarks during the medal parade ceremony
17. Wide shot, AMISOM Individual Police Officers (IPOs) listening to the opening
remarks during the medal parade ceremony
18. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) ASSISTANT INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE (AIGP)
AUGUSTINE MAGNUS KAILIE, AMISOM POLICE COMMISSIONER
“Some of them will be going for peacekeeping missions in Africa or Europe,
and they will be the best peacekeepers because they have witnessed it, felt
it, and associated with various IPOs. So, we wish them well. In Shaa Allah,
they will have peace, and when they have peace they will be the preachers of
peace.”

19. Wide shot, AMISOM Individual Police Officers (IPOs) applauding

20. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE (DEP) REX
DUNDUN, AMISOM CHIEF OF STAFF
“We have had some very distinguished officers, who I am proud to say can
hold their own at the highest level of policing internationally. We have had
IPOs that have been saddled with the responsibility of coordinating and
commanding a whole state, and by any policing standards, that duty belongs
to a professional category. And these officers performed exceptionally well.”

21. Med shot, AMISOM Police Commissioner, Augustine Magnus Kailie, pinning a
medal on a Police Officer during the medal parade ceremony
22. Med shot, AMISOM Police Commissioner, Augustine Magnus Kailie, handing
out a certificate to a Police Officer during the medal parade ceremony
23. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) ACP, AKANINYENE UNAAM, THE NIGERIAN AMISOM
POLICE CONTINGENT COMMANDER
“The Somali people have been wonderful. Different people, different
cultures, different environments and traditions, but I must say they are very
receptive, welcoming and generous.”

24. Med shot, AMISOM Police Commissioner, Augustine Magnus Kailie, pinning a
medal on a Police Officer during the medal parade ceremony
25. Med shot, AMISOM Police Commissioner, Augustine Magnus Kailie, handing
out a certificate to a Police Officer during the medal parade ceremony

26. Wide shot, AMISOM Police Commissioner, Augustine Magnus Kailie, pinning
a medal on a Police Officer during the medal parade ceremony
27. Med shot, AMISOM Police, Chief of Staff, Rex Dundun, pinning a medal on a
Police Officer during the medal parade ceremony
 28. Wide shot, participants posing for a group photo

AMISOM honours police officers for efforts in stabilising Somalia

Mogadishu, 22 February 2020 – The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has
honoured 32 police officers for their contribution restoration of peace and security
in Somalia.

The officers from Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia completed one year of service
in Somalia under AMISOM are due to return to their home countries at the end of
February.

The AMISOM Police Commissioner, Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP)

Augustine Magnus Kailie, on Saturday decorated the officers at a medal parade held
in Mogadishu.

AIGP Kailie commended them for contributing to the stabilisation of Somalia and
enabling the AMISOM police component to fulfill its mandate to train, mentor, and
advise the Somali Police Force (SPF).

He said that through their period of deployment, the police officers had contributed
to international peace efforts and directly impacted on the lives of the Somali
people.

“In the future, some of the Somali police officers you trained and mentored will go
on missions elsewhere and be the best peacekeepers because they have learnt from
you,” said Kailie told the departing officers.

He then advised them to utilise the knowledge gained their time of service in
AMISOM for personal development and career growth.

The AMISOM Police Chief of Staff, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Rex Dundun
said the 32 officers had performed exceptionally in the different units of
deployment.

“We had distinguished officers, who can hold their own at the highest level of
policing internationally. Some of the departing officers were responsible for
coordinating and commanding a whole state, and they performed well,” noted
Dundun.

Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Akaninyene Unaam from Nigeria, the

highest-ranking of the officers, thanked the Somali people for their cooperation.

“The Somali people have been wonderful. Different people, different cultures,
different environments, and traditions, but I must say they are very receptive,
welcoming, and generous,” said ACP Unaam.
Inspector of Police (IP) Mildred Ntono, from Uganda, said that she felt privileged to
have served under AMISOM. “I feel I have played a part in the peacebuilding of
Somalia,” she said.

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Busari Tajudeen from Nigeria, said the year
of service under AMISOM was also an opportunity to learn.

“I am returning home, not the way I came. I have also seen a visible transformation
in the Somali Police Force,” remarked Tajudeen.

ENDS