The Police Service Commission has approved the appointment of six Deputy Inspectors General of Police, promotion of a Commissioner of Police to Assistant Inspector General of Police, and CP for Oyo and Enugu States Commands.
The appointments by the PSC were contained in a statement issued by its Head of Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, on Tuesday.
According to the statement, the new Deputy Inspectors General of Police include Sadiq Idiris Abubakar, the Commandant, Police Academy, Wudil, Kano, Kano State, who was a former Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory, CP Peace keeping Operations, and Coordinator, Police Special Forces; Benjamin Nebolisa Okolo, former AIG, Zone 16, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State and presently AIG Department of Information Communication Technology, Force Headquarters Abuja; and Williams Adebowale, Commandant, Police Staff College Jos, Plateau State.
Others are Bzigu Yakubu Kwazi Bali, AIG FCID Annex, Enugu; Idegwu Basil Ukuoma, AIG Zone 14, Katsina; and Adebola Ayinde Hamzat, AIG Zone 16 Yenagoa and former Commissioner of Police, Oyo State Command, who was also a former CP Border Patrol, Force Headquarters, CP Crime Prevention and Community Safety, Deputy Force Secretary and currently AIG in charge of NPF Counter Terrorism Unit, Force Headquarters Abuja.
CP Kanayo Uzuegbu, Commissioner of Police Enugu State Command, promoted to the next rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police, was a former Assistant Commissioner of Police Operations, Zone 9, Umuahia; Area Commander, Owerri; Area Commander Karu, Nasarawa State; Commander, Operation Switch, Port Harcourt; Deputy Commissioner, Finance and Admin, Edo State Command, DCP, State CID, Osun State; and Commissioner of Police Operations, Communication, Force Headquarters, Abuja.
The Commission also approved the appointment of Commissioners of Police for Oyo and Enugu State Commands.
CP Ademola Johnson, Principal Staff Officer to the Inspector General of Police, was appointed as CP Oyo State. He was a former Deputy Commissioner of Police, Delta State Command.
CP Mamman Bitrus Giwa was appointed CP, Enugu State to take over from newly promoted AIG Uzuegbu.
CP Giwa was former DCP Operations, Kaduna and Imo State Commands; ACP Police Mobile Force, Force Headquarters Abuja; and CSP A, Commissioner of Police Mobile Force, Force Headquarters, among other postings in the Police Mobile Force.
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The Commission also approved the promotion of eight Chief Superintendents of Police to the next rank of Assistant Commissioners of Police.
They are Abdullahi Kamba Usman, Sani Abdu, Ifeanyi Owo, Vincent Orole, Elisha Atikinkpan and Margaret Okonkwo.
Others are Alhasan Aliyu Guga and Imo Owinizi Ezekiel.
The newly promoted Senior Police Officers were subjected to written examinations and interactive oral interviews.
The Chairman of the Commission, DIG Hashimu Argungu (retd), presided over the sessions with Justice Paul Adamu Galumje, Justice of the Supreme Court (retd) and Commissioner representing the Judiciary in the Commission; DIG Taiwo Lakanu (retd) and Commissioner representing the Police; and Chief Onyemuchi Nnamani, Secretary to the Commission, in attendance.
Argungu charged the new DIGs to give the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, the required support and cooperation to ensure that the Nigeria Police Force would be in a good position to secure the Nigerian space and ensure that law and order are maintained.
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