The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of Mr Frank Mba, a former police spokesman alongside 23 others to the position of Assistant Inspector-General of police (AIG).
108scoop. com reports that Mba is currently the commissioner of police, at the Police Command in Ogun State.
The PSC also promoted AIG Egbetokun Olukayode Adeolu to Deputy-Inspector General of Police (DIG) in charge of South West geopolitical zone of the country.
He would be replacing DIG Johnson Babatunde Kokumo who retired on March 15, 2023.
23 other Commissioners of Police were promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspector-General of Police and 33 Deputy Commissioners of Police to substantive Commissioners of Police.
The Commissioners of Police promoted to the rank of AIG are Rabi Umar, former CP Force Education; Mathew Akinyosola, acting AIG Police Mobile Force; Jonathan Towuru, acting AIG zone 6, Calabar; Sylvester Abiodun Alabi, acting AIG zone 2; Akande Sikiru Kayode, acting AIG zone 11 Osogbo; Abimbola Adebola Shokoya; Christopher Adetokunbo Owolabi and Yusuf Chiromawa Usman, CP workshop.
Others are Yekini Adio Ayoku, CP Kaduna State command; Olofu Tony Adejoh, CP Eastern Ports, Calabar; Aliyu Garba, Force headquarters; Idris Dabban Dauda, CP Force headquarters; Yusuf Ahmed Usman, CP Admin, operations, DIG operations; Haladu Musa Ros-Amson, Acting AIG FCID, Alagbon close, Lagos and Babatunde Babata Ishola, director staff college Jos.
Also on the list are: Alexander Nengi Wannang, Commandant Police Detective College in Enugu; Ari Mohammed Ali, CP Delta; Mamman Sanda Umar, CP Nigerian Ports Authority, Lagos; Sadiq Idris Abubakar, CP FCT; Benjamin Nebolisa Okolo, CP Bayelsa Command; Oyediran Adesoye Oyeyemi, CP Ondo Command; Babaji Sunday, Commandant Police College, Maiduguri and Arungwa Nwazue Udochukwu, CP DFA FIB, Force headquarters.
The spokesperson of the police commission, Ikechukwu Ani, said the appointments and promotions were some of the highlights of the 19th plenary meeting of the commission which was held in Abuja on Tuesday and presided over by the Commission’s acting Chairman, Justice Clara Bata Ogunbiyi.
The Commission also approved the promotion of 37 Assistant Commissioners of Police to Deputy Commissioners, 118 Chief Superintendents of Police to Assistant Commissioners, 316 Superintendents of Police to Chief Superintendents, eight Assistant Superintendents of Police to Deputy Superintendents and 61 Inspectors of Police to Assistant Superintendents II.
The PSC also considered and approved the confirmation and promotion of 4,449 Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASP) II to the substantive rank of Assistant Superintendents of Police, ASP I.
It approved the promotion of other senior police officers for outstanding performance and recognition from community leaders.
