The retired deputy controller general of Immigration (NIS), Hajia Sadat Hassan, has charged officers and men of the service to always demonstrate acts of patriotism in the discharge of duties.

Hassan reminded the officers that the fact that they are law enforcement agents does not place them above the country.

Rather, she said they must always subject themselves to service rules, irrespective of the beats they were deployed to serve.

Hassan spoke at a pull-out ceremony held in her honour by the Kwara State Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) at the command’s annexe office at the Federal Secretariat, Ilorin on Saturday where a book in her honour titled “The Silent Amazon: Sadat Hassan; Life Of A Compassionate Officer” was unveiled.

She thanked President Bola Tinubu, the comptroller-general of Immigration Service, Mrs Caroline Adepoju and the Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, for the support they accorded her while in the service.

In his book review, a professor of political science at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Hassan Salihu, described the honour as a model worthy of emulation by the young generation.

Earlier on Friday, the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu- Gambari had listed the retired DCG and the late Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, Gen. Tunde Idiagbon amongst those to be inducted and unveiled in the community’s hall of fame.

The emir said the duo in particular and other eminent sons and daughters of Ilorin Emirate who have distinguished themselves in their various fields will soon be inducted into the community’s hall of fame.

Hassan was the first female indigene of the Ilorin Emirate to attain the position of deputy controller-general of immigration.

Sulu-Gambari dropped the hint during a thanksgiving prayer organised in honour of Hassan, held at the Emir’s palace, Ilorin.