Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun has ordered the posting and redeployment of 40 senior police officers comprising 14 Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs) and 26 Commissioners of Police (CPs) to various commands and formations across the country.
Egbetokun said the development is part of mandate to give the country a professionally competent, service-driven, rule of law-compliant, and people-friendly police force and to reflect the new status of senior officers who were just recently elevated to their next ranks.
It was learnt that the postings and redeployment were among efforts to have a free, fair, and credible governorship election in Kogi, Imo, and Bayelsa states.
A statement yesterday in Abuja by Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO) Olumuyiwa Adejobi, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), reads: “The AIGs posted and redeployed are: Zone 7 Abuja – AIG Ogundele Joshua Ayodeji; Zone 11 Osogbo – AIG Patrick Ogon Edung; Border Patrol FHQ – AIG Badru Banji Lawal, mni; Zone 8 Lokoja – AIG Bartholomew N. Onyeka; DOPS FHQ – AIG Suleiman A. Yusuf, mni; FCID Annex Alagbon Lagos – AIG Idowu Owohunwa; Maritime Lagos – AIG Rhoda Adetutu Olofu; Zone 13 Ukpo Dunukofia Awka – AIG Godwin N. Aghaulor; ONSA Abuja – AIG Effiom Emmanuel Ekot; and CTU FHQ Abuja – AIG Anene Ndu Innocent.
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Others are: “Zone 16 Yenagoa – AIG Odama Paul Ojeka; Zone 4 Makurdi – AIG Ebong E. Eyibio, mni; Zone 17 Akure – AIG Adebowale Williams; Investment FHQ Abuja – AIG Sahabo A. Yahaya, mni.”
The statement also said the 26 newly posted/redeployed CPs are: “Benue State – CP George Chijioke Chuku; Jigawa State – CP Ahmed Abdullahi Tijani;. Niger State – CP Dan Mamman E. Shawulu, fsi; Gombe State – CP Usman Hayatu; Imo State – CP Danjuma Aboki; Rivers State – CP Disu Olatunji Rilwan; Taraba State – CP Joseph Eribo; Osun State – CP Isyaku Mohammed; Safer Highways FHQ – CP Mohammed Barde; PPP DLS FHQ – CP Polycarp Nwonyi Emeka; Anti-Human Trafficking – CP Shehu Kabir Abubakar; Border Patrol FHQ – CP Lawal Babatunde Ayodeji; Maritime Lagos – CP Emmanuel Agene; Admin Air Wing – CP Jude M. Azuka; Commandant Police College Kaduna – CP Dan Sabo Idi; Force Provost Marshal – CP Ibitoye Rufus Olajide; INEC – CP Adamu Ngojin Isa; Procurement DLS FHQ – CP Nwanosike Wodi Okocha; PSO to IGP – CP Johnson Oluwole Adenola; and PAP Western Port Lagos – CP Olanrewaju Olawale Shola.”
