Police Redeploys 37 Commissioners

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The Police Service Commission, PSC, has carried out a redeployment of Commissioners of Police of the 36 states of the federation and Federal Capital Territory, FCT. A statement from PSC said: 

“The Police Service Commission approved the deployment in line with Section 215 of the 1999 Constitution, which empowers the commission to appoint officers to states as Commissioners of Police, CP.”

Those affected in the deployment are Emmanuel Ojukwu, formerly Force Public Relations Officer, who has been deployed to Kogi State and Ikechukwu Nwodibo, formerly CP in charge of Legal Services, who has been posted to Taraba State.

Others are J. Habila, Abia State; Adejo Gabriel Adaji, Adamawa State; Muritala U. Mani, Akwa Ibom; Karma Hosea, Anambra; Mohammed K. Mohammed, Bauchi; P. Okafor, Bayelsa; Dibai P. Yakadi, Benue; J. Opadokun, Borno.

Henry Fadairo, Cross River; Usman Bala Alkali, Delta; P. Abdallah, Ebonyi; Chris Ezike, Edo; CP Etop J. James, Ekiti; CP Mohammed Adamu, Enugu, CP Wilson Inalegwu, FCT. Also appointed are CP Austin Iwar, Gombe; CP T. Lakanu, Imo; CP U. Tilli Abubakar, Jigawa; CP U. U. Shehu, Kaduna; Mohammed Katsina, Kano; CP U. Abdullahi, Katsina; CP Yakubu O. Jubrin, Kebbi.

Furthermore, E. Amadasun, is CP of Kwara; Fatai Owoseni remains CP, Lagos; Mohammed Sani Usman, remains CP Nasarawa; CP Abubakar Marafa, CP Niger; CP Abdulmajid Ali, Ogun; CP M. Ogbodu, Ondo; CP K. Shodipo, Osun; CP Leye Oyebade, Oyo. Others are CP Nasiru Oki, Plateau; CP Hyelasinda Kimo Musa, Rivers, CP Salisu F. Abdullahi, Sokoto; CP Zanna Mohammed Ibrahim, Yobe; Femi Ogunbayode, CP Zamfara.

Chairman of the Commission, Sir Mike Mbama Okiro said the deployment was to reinvigorate the State Commands for more effective and efficient policing in line with the Change Agenda of the 

President Muhammadu Buhari administration. He advised the state Commissioners to take their jobs seriously and ensure that they are committed to the enforcement of law and order and protection of lives and property within the ambits of the rule of law.

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