The Police Service Commission has approved the appointment of six Deputy Inspectors General of Police and the promotion of the Commissioner of Police Enugu State Command, Uzuegbu Kanayo, to the next rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police.
The new Deputy Inspectors General of Police include Sadiq Idiris Abubakar, who was the Commandant Police Academy, Wudil, Kano, before his promotion.
He was the former Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory; CP Peacekeeping Operations and Coordinator, Police Special Forces.
Others are Benjamin Nebolisa Okolo, a former AIG, Zone 16, Yenagoa and presently AIG Department of Information Communication Technology, Force Headquarters Abuja and Williams Adebowale, Commandant, Police Staff College Jos; Bzigu Yakubu Kwazi Bali, the 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.
Hamzat 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, Force Headquarters Abuja.
The Commissioner of Police Enugu State Command, Kanayo Uzuegbu, who has been promoted to the next rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police, was a former Assistant Commissioner Operations Zone 9, Umuahia; Area Commander, Owerri; Area Commander Karu, Nasarawa State; Commander, 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 appointment of Adenola Johnson as the Commissioner of Police for Oyo Command.
CP Ademola Johnson was the Principal Staff Officer 1 to the Inspector General of Police before his appointment.
He was also a former Deputy Commissioner of Police, Delta State Command.
Enugu State Command now has Mamman Bitrus Giwa as the Commissioner of Police in charge. He takes over from the 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.
PSC 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 PSC spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, said in a statement that the newly promoted senior police officers were subjected to written examinations and interactive oral interview.
The Chairman of the Commission, DIG Hashimu Argungu (rtd) presided over the sessions with Justice of the Supreme Court (rtd) and Honourable Commissioner representing the Judiciary in the Commission, Justice Paul Adamu Galumje; the Honourable Commissioner representing the Police, DIG Taiwo Lakanu (rtd) and Secretary to the Commission, Chief Onyemuchi Nnamani, in attendance.
DIG 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 and ensure that law and order are maintained.
