The Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the posting and redeployment of 17 Assistant Inspectors General of Police and 18 Commissioners of Police with immediate effect.
The information was contained in a statement on Tuesday by the Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi.
The affected AIGs include Yetunde O. Longe to AIG Training; Haruna Gabriel Garba to AIG Armament; Rex Dundun to AIG FCID Annex, Kaduna; Durosinmi A. Olatoye to AIG Zone 2, Lagos; Afolabi Babatunde Adeniyi to AIG Zone 3; Abiodun Oladimeji Asabi to AIG Zone 12, Bauchi; George Chijioke Chuku to AIG Zone 17, Akure; Paul Alifa Omata to AIG Zone 16, Yenagoa; and Yusuf Adesina Akeem to AIG Zone 8, Lokoja.
Adejobi added: “The newly posted/redeployed Commissioners of Police include Patrick Atayero to CP EOD; Illiyasu Yahaya Kwarbai to CP Admin. Air Wing; Bello Mohammed Sani to CP Force Provost Marshal; Olorundare Moshood Jimoh to CP Eastern Port; Rose Chollom Dung to CP Welfare; and Olarenwaju Ogunlowo to CP Special Intervention Squad.”
Also on Tuesday, Egbetokun decorated 35 newly-promoted Senior Police Officers at the Goodluck Jonathan International Peacekeeping Centre, Force Headquarters, Abuja.
Those promoted were made up of 14 AIGs and 21 CPs.
“The newly decorated officers include AIGs Yetunde Longe, Haruna Gabriel Garba, Tajudeen Akinwale Abass, Julius Alawiri Okoro, George Chijioke Chuku, and CPs Olanrewaju Peter Ogunlowo, Mohammed Dahiru, Dankombo Faling Morris, and David Iloyanomon,” the statement said.
Egbetokun congratulated the newly decorated senior officers, stressing the need for the newly posted and redeployed AIGs and CPs to bring their wealth of experience to bear in their assignments.
He expressed confidence that their ardent impact would boost the endeavour for excellence in the discharge of police constitutional responsibilities.
