PSC Approves Promotion of 2 DIGs,10 AIGs, 17 CPs, 3,800 Others
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), following their success in promotion examinations and oral interviews conducted by the Commission.
The approvals were granted at the Commission’s plenary meeting held on Thursday in Abuja, presided over by its Chairman, DIG Hashimu Salihu Argungu (rtd).
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.
The ten Commissioners of Police elevated to the rank of AIG are: 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); Nwogoh Martin, fdc (CP Airwing); Shetima Jauro Mohammed (CP Nasarawa); Ibrahim D. Gotan (former CP Osun); and Danjuma I. Yahaya (CP GI, FCID Kaduna).
The seventeen officers promoted to the rank of Commissioners of Police are: 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); Abiodun Onuoha (DC DFA Oyo); Salisu Bello Fago (DC DFA Zamfara); Adegoke A. Alani (DC CID Delta); Wuwa Auwal Muhammad (DC Airwing); and Benedict U. Agbo (DC Forensic).
Also, among the 85 officers promoted from the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) to Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) are ACP Dr. Ruth Oyinmearelu Okunbo (MBBS, FWACP), Medical Director, MD Abubakar Police Hospital Deidei and ASR Police Reference Hospital Utako, Abuja; ACP Isah Adejoh, Assistant Director, Liberal Studies, Police Staff College Jos; and ACP Mannir Yusuf Gafai, Kano State Command, among others.
Others promoted include 49 CSPs to ACPs, 245 SPs to CSPs, 498 DSPs to SPs, and 3,218 to DSPs.
Congratulating the newly promoted officers, PSC Chairman DIG Argungu (rtd), 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.
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