PSC promote 3,800 police officers, including two new DIGs
- Police Service Commission approve promotion for more than 3,800 senior officers after exams and interviews.
- Two AIGs, Olaolu Adegbite and Dankombo Morris, dem move up to Deputy Inspector-General of Police.
- Di list also get 10 new AIGs, 17 new Commissioners of Police and the FCT police spokesperson, Josephine Adeh.
More than 3,800 senior police officers don move up rank, di Police Service Commission (PSC) announce on Thursday after plenary meeting for Abuja.
Di promotions follow written exams and oral interviews, according to statement from di commission protocol and public relations head, Torty Njoku Kalu. Di meeting na PSC chairman, retired DIG Hashimu Salihu Argungu, chair am.
For top of di list, two Assistant Inspectors-General become Deputy Inspectors-General: Olaolu Adegbite, wey dey run INTERPOL National Central Bureau for Abuja, and Dankombo F. Morris, wey dey in charge of Zone 4 Headquarters for Makurdi, Benue State.
Adegbite bin head operations for di Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before. He get di national honour of MFR and he don study for Lagos, Moscow and Harvard Kennedy School, according to di commission. Morris, from Gombe State, study History for University of Maiduguri and e bin be Commissioner of Police for Adamawa State one time.
Who else move up
Ten Commissioners of Police dem promote to AIG. Dem include Ohagwu Felix Ndukwe (Ondo State), Afolabi Wilfred Olutokunbo (Abia State), Shetima Jauro Mohammed (Nasarawa State), Omosanyin Olusegun, Ogbodo Ugobueze, Taylor Lennox Olanrewaju, Regina Cosmas Udoette, Nwogoh Martin, Ibrahim D. Gotan and Danjuma I. Yahaya.
Seventeen Deputy Commissioners rise to Commissioner of Police, among dem na Nache Bashir Liman, Sirajo Lawal Salihu, Ayeleye Adegboyega E., Isiaka O. Salau, Usman Shaik Adamu, Aminu Maiwada Garba, Abdulkarim Musa Waziri and Muhammad Yusuf Adamu.
Further down, 85 Assistant Commissioners become DCPs and 49 Chief Superintendents become ACPs. Anoda 245 Superintendents dem promote to CSP, 498 Deputy Superintendents to SP, and 3,218 Assistant Superintendents to DSP.
Among di new CSPs na Josephine Adeh, di spokesperson for FCT Police Command for Abuja, plus her Adamawa counterpart Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje and Rivers State own Abah James. Di new DCPs include Dr Ruth Oyinmearelu Okunbo, medical director of di police hospitals for Deidei and Utako, Abuja.
Argungu congratulate di officers and talk say di new ranks suppose push dem to do more to protect lives and property and enforce di law.
For ordinary Nigerians, di changes matter pass for command level: di officers wey dey run state commands, zones and divisions now na dem residents go deal with when dem report crime or seek help.
