Another 78 senior police officers, including the National Coordinator of Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV), Olabisi Okuwobi, and the Divisional Police Officer, Alausa Division in Lagos State Police Command, Tokunbo Abaniwonda, have been promoted to their next ranks.
The promotion was approved by the Police Service Commission (PSC) at its second plenary meeting on Tuesday, December 27.
Those approved for promotion included 21 Assistant Commissioners of Police to the next rank of Deputy Commissioners and 57 Chief Superintendents to Assistant Commissioners.
Thenewsbearer reports that the PSC had on Monday, December 16, approved the promotion of 11 Commissioners of Police to Assistant Inspectors General and 16 Deputy Commissioners to substantive Commissioners.
The new Commissioners included former DCP Adamu Abdullahi Elleman, DCP Administration and Finance, Jigawa State Command.
He was the immediate past Head of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Monitoring Unit and was once, Deputy Commissioner Operations, Zone 7, Abuja.
Thenewsbearer further gathered that at the plenary, the officers were also subjected to Written and oral examinations.
During the oral interview, issues such as problems of logistics and manpower were identified as one of the manifest handicaps in most of the police departments, zones, states, area and Divisional Commands.
The officers pleaded that such issues should be attended to in the overall interest of the functionality of the Nigeria Police Force.
The Assistant Commissioners of Police elevated to the next rank of Deputy Commissioners were, Christopher Bassey Uweh, Area Commander, Ihiala, Anambra State; Abdulrahaman Usman, AC Ops, Zone 2 Lagos; Baba Mallam Alhaji, Area Commander, Agbara, Ogun State; Aminu Ado Aliyu, Commander 59 PMF Bajoga; Salau Mohammed Jimoh, Area Commander Ikole Ekiti; Mohammed Lariski Musa, BPU, Kwara State; Makuliso Baba Umar, Area Commander Kontagora, Niger State; and Shaibu Bello, INEC Headquarters, Abuja.
Others are Lawrence Iwodi, Area Commander Ayetoro, Ogun State; Arabia Ashe Mohammed, DFA, Nasarawa State; Ali Garba Agbo, Welfare, Force Headquarters Abuja; Halilu Muawiyah Commander 51 PMF Oghara; Sani JA’Afar Ahmed, Area Commander, Gusau, Zamfara state Ado Ibrahim, SCID, Delta State Command; Abubakar Ardo, Commander 35 PMF, Dutse; Mohammed Usman Modibbo, Assistant Director OPS, North Central zone; Yusuf S. Taiwo, Area Commander, Ilesa, Osun State; and former Bashiru Abdullahi, Area Commander, Tambuwal, Sokoto State.
Ahmadu Bello Garba, DFA, Zone 4 Makurdi; Paul Dung, State CID, Enugu and David Nonyelum Osuani; Area Commander Ogidi, Anambra State were also promoted to the next rank of Deputy Commissioners of Police.
The 57 Chief Superintendents of Police promoted to the rank of Assistant Commissioners of Police include Olabisi Oluseyi Okuwobi, POCACOV National Coordinator; Abimbola Tokunbo Abaniwonda, DPO, Alausa Division; Ezeala Daniel Ezeala; Tamarauebi Timpa and Toyin Ahmed Sulyman, DPO, Abacha Road, Mararaba Plateau State.
Others are Mohammed Sani Abubakar; Marcus Michael Tarfa Interpol FCIID, Abuja; Uba Shehu; Elijah Eleke; John Inyang; Ochomo ThankGod; Ahmed Usman Muhammed; Okezie Daniel Iroakazi; Emeka Emmanuel Adigwe; Suraju Kehinde Oyewole; Abubakar Yusuf; Hassan Khalil Ibrahim; William Robinson Odumu, DPO, Anambra State; Glory Gabriel Otonko, Force Intelligence Bureau, Enugu State;
Alex Sani Gwazah, Matilda Ugowe, Hamman Aminu and Aboyemi Gbenga.
The week-long plenary meeting, which the PSC spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, said was the last for the year, was presided over by the Chairman, DIG Hashimu Argungu (rtd).
It also had in attendance Justice of the Supreme Court, Paul Galumje (retired) and the PSC Honourable Commissioner, DIG Taiwo Lakanu (rtd).
