PSC approves appointment of six new DIGs, promotes CP to AIG

The Police Service Commission (PSC) 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 are Sadiq Idiris Abubakar, Commandant, Police Academy, Wudil, Kano. He was a former Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory; CP, Peacekeeping Operations, and Coordinator, Police Special Forces; Benjamin Nebolisa Okolo, former AIG, Zone 16, Yenagoa, and presently AIG, Department of Information Communication Technology, Force Headquarters, Abuja; and Williams Adebowale, Commandant, Police Staff College, Jos.

Others are Bzigu Yakubu Kwazi Bali, AIG, FCID Annex, Enugu; Idegwu Basil Ukuoma, AIG, Zone 14, Katsina; Adebola Ayinde Hamzat, AIG, Zone 16, Yenagoa, and former Commissioner of Police, Oyo State Command.

He was also a former CP, Border Patrol, Force Headquarters; CP, Crime Prevention and Community Safety; Deputy Force Secretary, and currently AIG in charge of the NPF Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU), Force Headquarters, Abuja.

CP Kanayo Uzuegbu, Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, 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 Commissioners of Police for Oyo and Enugu State Commands. CP Adenola Johnson, Principal Staff Officer to the Inspector General of Police, was appointed CP, Oyo State.

He was also a former Deputy Commissioner of Police, Delta State Command. CP Mamman Bitrus Giwa was appointed CP, Enugu State to take over from newly promoted AIG Kanayo Uzuegbu. CP Giwa was a 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.

Spokesman of the Commission, Ikechukwu Ani, also noted that the Commission 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 newly promoted senior police officers were subjected to written examinations and interactive oral interviews.
The Chairman of the Commission, DIG Hashimu Argungu (rtd.), mni, presided over the sessions with Justice Paul Adamu Galumje, Justice of the Supreme Court (rtd.) and Honourable Commissioner representing the Judiciary in the Commission; DIG Taiwo Lakanu (rtd.), fdc, Honourable Commissioner representing the Police; and Chief Onyemuchi Nnamani, Secretary to the Commission, 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.