…10 AIGs, 17 Commissioners Of Police Also Get New Ranks
…3,218 Assistant Superintendents Elevated To DSPs As Commission Charges Officers On Performance
Ayomide Awe
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of more than 3,800 senior police officers, including two Assistant Inspectors-General of Police elevated to the rank of Deputy Inspectors-General of Police.
The commission also approved the elevation of 10 Commissioners of Police to the rank of Assistant Inspectors-General of Police and 17 Deputy Commissioners of Police to Commissioners of Police.
The promotions were approved during the commission’s plenary meeting held in Abuja on Thursday and presided over by its chairman, DIG Hashimu Salihu Argungu (retd.).
PLATFORM TIMES gathered that the affected officers emerged successful in promotion examinations and oral interviews conducted by the commission.
According to a statement issued by the PSC’s Head of Protocol and Public Relations, Torty Njoku Kalu, the two newly promoted DIGs are Olaolu Adegbite and Dankombo F. Morris.
Adegbite, who heads the INTERPOL National Central Bureau in Abuja, previously served as Director of Operations at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Morris, who heads Zone 4 Headquarters in Makurdi, Benue State, had also served as Commissioner of Police in Adamawa State.
The commission further approved the promotion of 10 CPs to the rank of AIGs. They are Omosanyin Olusegun, Ogbodo Ugobueze, Ohagwu Ndukwe, Taylor Olanrewaju, Regina Udoette, Afolabi Olutokunbo, Nwogoh Martin, Shetima Mohammed, Ibrahim Gotan and Danjuma Iyahaya.
Seventeen Deputy Commissioners of Police were also elevated to the rank of Commissioners of Police.
They include Nache Bashir Liman, Sirajo Lawal Salihu, Ayeleye Adegboyega E., Isiaka O. Salau, Usman Shaik Adamu, Aminu Maiwada Garba, Abdulkarim Musa Waziri, Muhammad Yusuf Adamu, Sani Adamu Nufawa, Bello M. Adamu, Okezie Chikezie C., Aminu Usman Gusau, Abiodun Onuoha, Salisu Bello Fago, Adegoke A. Alani, Wuwa Auwal Muhammad and Benedict U. Agbo.
In other categories, the PSC approved the promotion of 85 Assistant Commissioners of Police to Deputy Commissioners of Police, 49 Chief Superintendents of Police to Assistant Commissioners of Police, 245 Superintendents of Police to Chief Superintendents of Police and 498 Deputy Superintendents of Police to Superintendents of Police.
Among those promoted from SP to CSP is the spokesperson of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, Josephine Adeh.
Other officers in the category include Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, spokesperson of the Adamawa State Police Command; Abah James of the Rivers State Police Command; Okere Romanus, Divisional Police Officer of Isiowulu Division in Anambra State; and Ugochukwu Ozoude Alex, Officer-in-Charge of the Monitoring Unit at Zone 9 Headquarters in Umuahia.
The commission also approved the promotion of 3,218 Assistant Superintendents of Police to the rank of Deputy Superintendents of Police.
Congratulating the newly promoted officers, Argungu urged them to regard their elevation as a call to greater responsibility and improved performance.
He stressed that the commission expected them to demonstrate greater commitment to their duties, particularly in protecting lives and property and enforcing the law.
The PSC chairman charged the officers to justify their new ranks through professionalism, discipline and effective service delivery.
