The Police Service Commission, PSC, has accepted the promotion of greater than 3,800 senior law enforcement officials, together with two Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, DIGs, 10 Assistant Inspectors-General of Police, AIGs, and 17 (*10*) of Police, CPs.
Torty Njoku Kalu, Head of Protocol and Public Relations on the Police Service Commission in Abuja, disclosed this in a press release, saying the promotions adopted the officers’ profitable efficiency in promotion examinations and oral interviews carried out by the fee.
The approvals have been granted on the fee’s plenary assembly in Abuja, presided over by its chairman, DIG Hashimu Salihu Argungu.
Among these promoted have been AIG Olaolu Adegbite, Head of the INTERPOL National Central Bureau in Abuja, and AIG Dankombo F. Morris, who heads Zone 4 Headquarters in Makurdi. Both have been elevated to the rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Police.
Adegbite holds a BA in Russian Language from the University of Lagos and an MA in Philology from the Pushkin Institute in Moscow. He is a recipient of the nationwide honour of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic, MFR, a member of the FBI National Academy Associates, and an alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School. He beforehand served as Director of (*17*) on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
In one other growth, the 10 officers elevated to the rank of Assistant Inspector-General of Police included Omosanyin Olusegun (CP Administration, FCID Annex, Ikoyi, Lagos); Ogbodo Ugobueze (CP Anti-Fraud, FCID Annex, Enugu); Ohagwu Felix Ndukwe (CP, Ondo State); Taylor Lennox Olanrewaju (AIG/ES, Nigeria Police Cooperative); Regina Cosmas Udoette (CP GI, FCID Annex, Enugu); and Afolabi Wilfred Olutokunbo (CP, Abia State Command), amongst others.
Similarly, officers promoted to the rank of Commissioner of Police included DCP Nache Bashir Liman (DC ZCID); Sirajo Lawal Salihu (DC FMIU); Ayeleye Adegboyega E. (DC AHTU, FCID); Isiaka O. Salau (DC SID, Ibadan); Usman Shaik Adamu (DC CID, Jos); Aminu Maiwada Garba (DC DFA, NGS); Abdulkarim Musa Waziri (DC DFA, Yobe); Muhammad Yusuf Adamu (DC Administration, FCID); Sani Adamu Nufawa (DC Inter School, Kwara State); Bello M. Adamu (DCA, Zone 2); Okezie Chikezie C. (DC Anti-Fraud, FCID, Abuja); and Aminu Usman Gusau (DC DFA, Katsina), amongst others.
Congratulating the newly promoted officers, PSC Chairman DIG Hashimu Salihu Argungu urged them to see their promotions as motivation to carry out their duties extra diligently, notably in defending lives and property and imposing the legislation.
He famous that a lot was anticipated of them.
