A team of 100 policemen from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have arrived in Nigeria for four months' training at a paramilitary police college, police officials said.
Muktar Abbas, the commandant of the Mobile Police Training College in
Gworza, in the northeastern state of Borno, told reporters on Saturday in the state capital, Maiduguri, that the team of five officers and 95 other
ranks had arrived in the college. "The training programme was agreed when (DRC) President Joseph Kabila visited President Olusegun Obasanjo early this year," a senior police official told IRIN on Tuesday.
The training would involve a two-month course in basic policing, one month
of training in crime detection and another month of anti-riot and
paramilitary training, police officials said.
Nigeria's paramilitary Mobile Police unit is responsible for quelling riots and other forms of civil unrest.
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