Command and staff college graduates 45th Batch.
The Command and Staff College on Friday June 21, 2024 graduated the 45th batch of the Junior Command and Staff certificate after five months of theoretical and practical lessons in the institution hosted in the EMIA premises.

The farewell ceremony was presided over by the Secretary of State to the Minister of Defence in charge of the National Gendarmerie, Galax Etoga Landry seating in for the Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of Defence, Beti Assomo Joseph at the amphi-theatre of the institution.

In all they were ninety-six officers drawn from the National Gendarmerie, the Army, the Air Force and the Navy. Amongst whom were eighteen females and three foreigners from the Central African Republic.

The 45th batch of the Junior Command and Staff Certificate scored an average pass of 85,4% with the most outstanding Captain Njitchouang Tigang Joel a pilot of the Cameroon Air Forces scoring a total average of 15,64, While the second and the third were Captains Kakam Shinda Hervé Patrice and Etoa Atangana Sandrine who scored 15,08 and 14,99 respectively. Captain Etoa Atangana Sandrine was the first female and only Gendarme amongst the first five.

Speaking during his welcome address the Commandant of the Command and Staff College, Colonel Abanda Bernard congratulated the collective fighting spirit of the 45th batch, their dynamism as well as their promptness to fine tune solution to pressing modern issues.

Worthy of nothing is that this batch is particularly for their courses where not just contextual but adapted to modern technological evolution. For where they did their field trips in France and Cameroon speaks for itself.

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