The Chief of Staff of the Army, Colonel Théophile Nikiema, chaired the end of the qualification course in commando techniques on March 21, 2024 at Camp Thomas Sankara in Pô. 70 instructors, monitors and assistant instructors from the Pô National Commando Training Center (CNEC). This ceremony was attended by customary and administrative authorities led by the governor of the Center-South region, Massadalo Yvette Nacoulma/Sanou.
Since January 15, 2024, 05 officers, 05 non-commissioned officers and 60 non-commissioned officers have braved all kinds of bad weather linked to the training to be present on arrival this March 21. For the commander of the National Commando Training Center (CNEC) of Pô, Captain Patrick A. Bado, this qualification course in commando techniques aims to meet the need to have elite, competent and qualified personnel to instruct the technical commandos to other entities of the defense and security forces on the one hand, and on the other hand, to have a reservoir of seasoned personnel cap
able of daring actions.
And it is with a success rate of 85.71% that the center commander declared the 60 commandos out of the 70 capable of assuming and carrying out the tasks entrusted to them.
Addressing the newly qualified, Captain Bado invited them to see faith, energy, rigor and solidarity, essential values for the success of a commando’s missions.
During the ceremony, a monument to Captain Thomas Sankara, the very first head of the CNEC corps, was unveiled. It is set up inside the Camp which bears his name ‘the Thomas Sankara camp’. Also, a room inside was named in the name of Sansan Albert Kevin Kambou, one of the center’s first commandos.
The invitation to the ceremony and these two activities delighted the former comrades in the struggle of Thomas Sankara and Kevin Kambou, present at the ceremony with a strong delegation of around thirty comrades grouped within the CNEC alumni association. , led by Famoro Ouattara and Abdrahamane Zetiyengga.
For them, this monument allows the CNEC to rise from
its ashes. The Chief of Staff of the Army, Colonel Théophile Nikiema, who chaired the ceremony, invited the trainees to use the knowledge acquired only within the framework of service. He asked for blessings and prayers from the customary authorities of the province present at the ceremony for these men committed to the reconquest of the national territory.
Before the start of the ceremony, a minute of silence was observed in memory of all the commandos who paid with their lives for the defense of the homeland
Source: Burkina Information Agency