The Police Service Commission, PSC, has approved the promotion of over 3,800 senior police officers, including two Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, DIGs, ten Assistant Inspectors-General of Police, AIGs, and seventeen Commissioners of Police, CPs.
Torty Njoku Kalu, Head, Protocol and Public Relations Police Service Commission Abuja, in a statement said the promotion, followed their success in promotion examinations and oral interviews conducted by the Commission.
The approvals were granted at the Commission’s plenary meeting held in Abuja, presided over by its Chairman, DIG Hashimu Salihu Argungu.
Among those promoted were: AIG Olaolu Adegbite, Head of INTERPOL National Central Bureau Abuja, and AIG Dankombo F. Morris, who currently heads Zone 4 Headquarters, Makurdi, were both elevated to the rank of Deputy Inspector General of Police.
Also, AIG Adegbite holds a BA in Russian Language from the University of Lagos and an MA in Philology from the Pushkin Institute, Moscow. A recipient of the MFR national honour, a member of the FBI National Academy Associates and an alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School, he previously served as Director of Operations at the EFCC.
In another development, the ten Commissioners of Police elevated to the rank of AIG were: Omosanyin Olusegun (CP Admin, 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); Afolabi Wilfred Olutokunbo (CP Abia State Command) among others
Also, 17 officers promoted to the rank of Commissioners of Police were: 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 Admin FCID); Sani Adamu Nufawa (DC Inter School, Kwara State); Bello M. Adamu (DCA Zone 2); Okezie Chikezie C. (DC Anti Fraud FCID Abuja); Aminu Usman Gusau (DC DFA Katsina) among others.
Congratulating the newly promoted officers, PSC Chairman, DIG Hashimu Salihu Argungu, admonished them to see their promotion as motivation to do more in their duties of securing lives and properties and general law enforcement, noting that much is expected of them.
