The Police Service Commission has approved the appointment of CP Adenola Johnson as the new commissioner of Police Oyo state police command. CP Johnson until his appointment was the Principal Staff Officer to the Inspector General of Police. He was also a former Deputy Commissioner of Police Delta State Command and was the Officer in charge of the Homicide Unit State Criminal Investigation Department SCID Panti Yaba Lagos .
The PSC also appointed CP Mamman Bitrus Giwa as the CP Enugu State command. He take over from newly promoted AIG Kanayo 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.
The PSC also approves the appointment of six Deputy Inspectors General of Police.
A statement by Ikechukwu Ani, Head, Press and Public Relations, PSC said
The new Deputy Inspectors General of Police are Sadiq Idiris Abubaka r- the Commandant Police Academy, Wudil, Kano. He was former Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory; CP Peace keeping Operations and Coordinator, Police Special Forces.
Among the new DIGs is also Benjamin Nebolisa Okolo, former AIG, Zone 16, Yenagoa and presently AIG Department of Information Communication Technology, Force Headquarters Abuja. Also, Williams Adebowale, Commandant, Police Staff College Jos made the list.
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. He 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, CTU, and Force Headquarters Abuja.
CP Kanayo Uzuegbu promoted to the next rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police is the Commissioner of Police Enugu State Command, a former Assistant Commissioner Operations Zone 9, Umuahia; Area Commander, Owerri; Area Commander Karu, Nasarawa state; Commander Switch 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 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 interview.
The Chairman of the Commission, DIG Hashimu Argungu (retd.), presided over the sessions which has other PSC members present including Justice Paul Adamu Galumje, Justice of the Supreme Court (retd) and Honourable Commissioner representing the Judiciary in the Commission; DIG Taiwo Lakanu (retd.), Honourable Commissioner representing the Police and Chief Onyemuchi Nnamani, Secretary to the Commission.
Argungu charged the new DIGs to give the Inspector-General of Police the required support and cooperation to ensure that the Nigeria Police Force would be in a good position to secure the Nigerian space.
