The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of more than 3,800 senior police officers, among them two Deputy Inspectors-General of Police (DIGs), ten Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) and 17 Commissioners of Police (CPs).
The officers were promoted after passing promotion examinations and oral interviews conducted by the Commission. The approvals were granted at the PSC’s plenary meeting held in Abuja on Friday, presided over by its Chairman, DIG Hashimu Salihu Argungu (rtd).
AIG Olaolu Adegbite, Head of the INTERPOL National Central Bureau, Abuja, and AIG Dankombo F. Morris, who heads the Zone 4 Headquarters in Makurdi, were both elevated to the rank of DIG.
Adegbite holds a BA in Russian Language from the University of Lagos and an MA in Philology from the Pushkin Institute in Moscow. He is 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 Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Morris, a native of Gombe State, holds a BA in History from the University of Maiduguri and a Diploma in Police Science. He formerly served as Commissioner of Police in Adamawa State.
The ten CPs elevated to 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); and Regina Cosmas Udoette (CP GI, FCID Annex, Enugu).
Others are Afolabi Wilfred Olutokunbo (CP, Abia State Command); Nwogoh Martin (CP, Airwing); Shetima Jauro Mohammed (CP, Nasarawa); Ibrahim D. Gotan (former CP, Osun); and Danjuma I. Yahaya (CP GI, FCID Kaduna).
The newly promoted CPs, all previously Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs), are Nache Bashir Liman, Sirajo Lawal Salihu, Ayeleye Adegboyega E., Isiaka O. Salau, Usman Shaik Adamu, Aminu Maiwada Garba, Abdulkarim Musa Waziri, Muhammad Yusuf Adamu and Sani Adamu Nufawa.
The list also includes Bello M. Adamu, Okezie Chikezie C., Aminu Usman Gusau, Abiodun Onuoha, Salisu Bello Fago, Adegoke A. Alani, Wuwa Auwal Muhammad and Benedict U. Agbo.
Eighty-five Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACPs) were elevated to DCP, including Dr. Ruth Oyinmearelu Okunbo, Medical Director of the Abubakar Police Hospital, Deidei, and the ASR Police Reference Hospital, Utako, Abuja; Isah Adejoh, Assistant Director, Liberal Studies, Police Staff College, Jos; and Mannir Yusuf Gafai of the Kano State Command.
In addition, 49 Chief Superintendents of Police (CSPs) were promoted to ACP; 245 Superintendents of Police (SPs) to CSP; 498 Deputy Superintendents of Police (DSPs) to SP; and 3,218 Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASPs) to DSP.
Among those moved up are CSPs Danjuma Ribah, Peter Ajah Oluohu, Effiom Okon, Emmanuel Kayode and Mohammed Bello Goshe; SPs Josephine Adeh, Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, Abah James and Okere Romanus; and DSPs Isa Osu, Samaila Amadu Bangajiya and Akadu Godwin.
Congratulating the officers, Argungu urged them to see their promotion as motivation to do more in securing lives and property and in general law enforcement, noting that much is expected of them.
