Let’s keep celebrating this officer!
Rabiu Garba was the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) at Fegge Onitsha. He built a borehole for the neighbourhood without any fund raising.
He organized soccer tournaments for the youths of Fegge at their stadium where he also went to play table tennis weekly.
For Rabiu Garba, Fegge was his home. Fegge was his community.
This officer attended almost every function in the locality and the people so much loved him.
It could be recalled in those days when some boys were going about destroying police post, when the rampaging youths came to burn his Police Division, he neither fought nor fled.
While his men were panicked, he walked out to meet the mob with the courage of a man who had nothing to fear.
They recognized him and the angry chants were silenced! Most of the youths could vouch for him as a professional cop and a role model for many young men in the community.
They even granted him audience to address and counsel them before the mob dispersed.
It had nothing to do with his tribe.
It had nothing to do with his religion.
He was just a model of a true Nigerian
Thank you DPO Rabiu Garba.
By Ike-Nedu Uba