Police Commission Promotes 24 CPs, 35 DCPs, 52 ACPs, 50 CSPs [FULL LIST]

*Drops Ibrahim Magu

The Police Service Commission has approved the promotion of 24
Commissioners of Police to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors
General of Police.

The Commission also approved the promotion of 35 Deputy
Commissioners of Police to the rank of Commissioners, 52 Assistant
Commissioners of Police to Deputy Commissioners and 46 Chief
Superintendents of Police to Assistant Commissioners.

The Commission’s Head of Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu
Ani, made this known in a statement on Thursday titled, ‘PSC
Promotes 24 CPs, 35 DCPs, 52 ACPs, 50 CSPs, Drops Ibrahim
Magu’.

According to Ani, the decisions were the highpoints of the
Commission’s 12th Plenary Meeting held on Tuesday and Wednesday,
which was presided over by the Commission’s Chairman, Musiliu
Smith, a retired Inspector General of Police.

Similarly, the Police Service Commission confirmed the acting
appointments of three Deputy Inspectors General of Police. Those
whose acting appointments were confirmed were Tijanni Baba who
replaced DIG Aminchi Baraya (rtd.) in the North-East; Zanna
Ibrahim, who replaced DIG Ibrahim Larmode (rtd.), in the
North-East; and Moses Jitoboh who replaced DIG Ogbizi Michael
(rtd.) in the South-South zone.

The statement further read, “It also considered and approved the
promotion of 10 Superintendents of Police to Chief Superintendents,
17 Deputy Superintendents of Police to Superintendents, 139
Assistant Superintendents of Police, whose names were skipped
during the last promotion, to Deputy Superintendents and nine
Inspectors to Assistant Superintendents of Police.

“The 24 Commissioners of Police promoted to Assistant Inspectors
General of Police were; Usman Nagogo, currently CP Federal
Intelligence Bureau, Force Headquarters Abuja; Bala Ciroma, CP, FCT
Command; Ahmad Abdurrahman, NIPPS, Jos; Adeleke Bode, CP, Kebbi
State Command; Muri Musa, CP Kaduna State Command; Lawal Tanko,
(former COMPOL POPOL) and presently Commandant Police Academy Wudil
Kano; Dauda Abdulkarim, Commandant Police Traning College Kaduna;
Usman Belele, CP Research and Development, Force Headquarters
Abuja.

Others are “Adebola Emmanuel Longe, CP. Nasarawa State; Musa
Adze, CP Anti Fraud, FCIID, Abuja; Philip Sule, former CP Ebonyi
and currently CP SPU Force Headquarters, Abuja; Usman Sule Gomna,
CP Jigawa State Command; Adamu Usman, CP Niger State Command;
Daniel Sokari Pedro, Deputy Commandant, Police Academy Wudil, Kano;
Ahmed Mohammed Azare, CP Taraba Command; Adamu Saleh Jajeri;
Maigana Alhaji Sani, CP FCIID Annex Kaduna; Audu Adamu Madaki,
former CP Welfare, presently CP, Benue State; and Ibrahim Sani
Kaoje; NIPPS”.

Also promoted were “John Ogbonnaya Amadi CP Airport Command; Ede
Ayuba Ekpeji, CP Kogi State Command; Mohammed Bagega, Kwara State
Command; Bello Makwashi, CP Borno State Command, Buba Sanusi, CP
Katsina State Command”.

“The 35 Deputy Commissioners of Police promoted to Commissioners
include; Idowu Owohunwa, Principal Staff Officer to the Inspector
General of Police; Babaji Sunday, Deputy Commissioner, Operations,
FCT Command, Arungwa Udochukwu Nwazue, former DCP, Operations, FCT
and currently DCP, Ops Zone 9, Umuahia; Ayuba Elkana, DCP Ops
Zamfara State Command; Mohammed Barde, DCP CID, Borno State
Command; Abdullahi Mudasiru, DCP Force Intelligence Annex Lagos;
Salisu Gedeji, DCP Training FHQs Abuja; Umar Mohammed Na, Isa DCP
Ops, Jigawa; Musa Baba, DCP Armament, FHQs Abuja; D.D Kromda;
Chollong Gyang DCP, CID Zamfara; and Aliyu Tafida.

“Others were; Abubakar Lawal; Aliyu Haruna; Alhassan Aminu,
Abdul Umar; Vincent Amakiri; Adewale Harry; A.M Williams; Shettima
Zanna; Ebong Eribo, DCP Admin, Bayelsa State Command; Adepoju
Ilori, DCP Accounts and Budget, Force Headquarters, Okon Okon, DCP,
National Defence College, Abuja; Echeng Echeng DCP Zone 13, Ukpo;
Sussan Horsfal, former DCP CID Airports Command and presently DCP
CID, Akwa Ibom State Command; Adeshina Morenkeji, Augustine Arop,
former DCP Admin, Akwa Ibom State Command and presently DCP CID,
Osun State Command and Bankole Lanre Sikiru, DCP Interpol Lagos
among others.

“The 52 Assistant Commissioners of Police promoted to Deputy
Commissioners include; Akinbayo Olasunkanmi Olasoji, Area
Commander, Area B, Apapa, Lagos; Bello Yahaya, ACP Ops, FIB, Abuja;
Bakori A. Ibrahim, former PSO to Inspector General of Police and
presently Commandant Bayelsa State Task Force on Operation Doo Apo;
Adepoju Olugbenga Adewole, Area Commander P, Alagbon Close, Lagos
sate Command; Ajide Olayinka; Alice Agba; Sadiq Idris; Mustapha
Abubakar; Agbo Godwin; Aliyu Iliya; and Samuel Oke.

“Some of the Chief Superintendents of Police promoted to ACPs
include; Ibrahim Ada Usman; Jatau Hassan Anga second in command 23
PMF, Lagos; Benjamin Ogungbure; Elechi Raphael Nkem; Shehu Sambo,
Makanjuola Abiodun and Abayomi Olugbenga Megbope.

“Olusegun Rafiu, Mohammed Awwal Yahaya and Ben Kalio were some
of the ten Superintendents of Police promoted to Chief
Superintendents, while Erhabor Orobosa Henry was one of the 17 DSPs
promoted to Superintendents of Police.

“The Chairman of the Commission, Musiliu Smith, congratulated
the beneficiaries and demanded of them, a commitment to the service
of the Nigerian nation and to operate within the laws of the land
and with the fear of God. He said the Commission will continue to
ensure that promotions in the Police will follow due process and as
and when due.”

*Drops Ibrahim Magu

The Police Service Commission has approved the promotion of 24
Commissioners of Police to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors
General of Police.

The Commission also approved the promotion of 35 Deputy
Commissioners of Police to the rank of Commissioners, 52 Assistant
Commissioners of Police to Deputy Commissioners and 46 Chief
Superintendents of Police to Assistant Commissioners.

The Commission’s Head of Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu
Ani, made this known in a statement on Thursday titled, ‘PSC
Promotes 24 CPs, 35 DCPs, 52 ACPs, 50 CSPs, Drops Ibrahim
Magu’.

According to Ani, the decisions were the highpoints of the
Commission’s 12th Plenary Meeting held on Tuesday and Wednesday,
which was presided over by the Commission’s Chairman, Musiliu
Smith, a retired Inspector General of Police.

Similarly, the Police Service Commission confirmed the acting
appointments of three Deputy Inspectors General of Police. Those
whose acting appointments were confirmed were Tijanni Baba who
replaced DIG Aminchi Baraya (rtd.) in the North-East; Zanna
Ibrahim, who replaced DIG Ibrahim Larmode (rtd.), in the
North-East; and Moses Jitoboh who replaced DIG Ogbizi Michael
(rtd.) in the South-South zone.

The statement further read, “It also considered and approved the
promotion of 10 Superintendents of Police to Chief Superintendents,
17 Deputy Superintendents of Police to Superintendents, 139
Assistant Superintendents of Police, whose names were skipped
during the last promotion, to Deputy Superintendents and nine
Inspectors to Assistant Superintendents of Police.

“The 24 Commissioners of Police promoted to Assistant Inspectors
General of Police were; Usman Nagogo, currently CP Federal
Intelligence Bureau, Force Headquarters Abuja; Bala Ciroma, CP, FCT
Command; Ahmad Abdurrahman, NIPPS, Jos; Adeleke Bode, CP, Kebbi
State Command; Muri Musa, CP Kaduna State Command; Lawal Tanko,
(former COMPOL POPOL) and presently Commandant Police Academy Wudil
Kano; Dauda Abdulkarim, Commandant Police Traning College Kaduna;
Usman Belele, CP Research and Development, Force Headquarters
Abuja.

Others are “Adebola Emmanuel Longe, CP. Nasarawa State; Musa
Adze, CP Anti Fraud, FCIID, Abuja; Philip Sule, former CP Ebonyi
and currently CP SPU Force Headquarters, Abuja; Usman Sule Gomna,
CP Jigawa State Command; Adamu Usman, CP Niger State Command;
Daniel Sokari Pedro, Deputy Commandant, Police Academy Wudil, Kano;
Ahmed Mohammed Azare, CP Taraba Command; Adamu Saleh Jajeri;
Maigana Alhaji Sani, CP FCIID Annex Kaduna; Audu Adamu Madaki,
former CP Welfare, presently CP, Benue State; and Ibrahim Sani
Kaoje; NIPPS”.

Also promoted were “John Ogbonnaya Amadi CP Airport Command; Ede
Ayuba Ekpeji, CP Kogi State Command; Mohammed Bagega, Kwara State
Command; Bello Makwashi, CP Borno State Command, Buba Sanusi, CP
Katsina State Command”.

“The 35 Deputy Commissioners of Police promoted to Commissioners
include; Idowu Owohunwa, Principal Staff Officer to the Inspector
General of Police; Babaji Sunday, Deputy Commissioner, Operations,
FCT Command, Arungwa Udochukwu Nwazue, former DCP, Operations, FCT
and currently DCP, Ops Zone 9, Umuahia; Ayuba Elkana, DCP Ops
Zamfara State Command; Mohammed Barde, DCP CID, Borno State
Command; Abdullahi Mudasiru, DCP Force Intelligence Annex Lagos;
Salisu Gedeji, DCP Training FHQs Abuja; Umar Mohammed Na, Isa DCP
Ops, Jigawa; Musa Baba, DCP Armament, FHQs Abuja; D.D Kromda;
Chollong Gyang DCP, CID Zamfara; and Aliyu Tafida.

“Others were; Abubakar Lawal; Aliyu Haruna; Alhassan Aminu,
Abdul Umar; Vincent Amakiri; Adewale Harry; A.M Williams; Shettima
Zanna; Ebong Eribo, DCP Admin, Bayelsa State Command; Adepoju
Ilori, DCP Accounts and Budget, Force Headquarters, Okon Okon, DCP,
National Defence College, Abuja; Echeng Echeng DCP Zone 13, Ukpo;
Sussan Horsfal, former DCP CID Airports Command and presently DCP
CID, Akwa Ibom State Command; Adeshina Morenkeji, Augustine Arop,
former DCP Admin, Akwa Ibom State Command and presently DCP CID,
Osun State Command and Bankole Lanre Sikiru, DCP Interpol Lagos
among others.

“The 52 Assistant Commissioners of Police promoted to Deputy
Commissioners include; Akinbayo Olasunkanmi Olasoji, Area
Commander, Area B, Apapa, Lagos; Bello Yahaya, ACP Ops, FIB, Abuja;
Bakori A. Ibrahim, former PSO to Inspector General of Police and
presently Commandant Bayelsa State Task Force on Operation Doo Apo;
Adepoju Olugbenga Adewole, Area Commander P, Alagbon Close, Lagos
sate Command; Ajide Olayinka; Alice Agba; Sadiq Idris; Mustapha
Abubakar; Agbo Godwin; Aliyu Iliya; and Samuel Oke.

“Some of the Chief Superintendents of Police promoted to ACPs
include; Ibrahim Ada Usman; Jatau Hassan Anga second in command 23
PMF, Lagos; Benjamin Ogungbure; Elechi Raphael Nkem; Shehu Sambo,
Makanjuola Abiodun and Abayomi Olugbenga Megbope.

“Olusegun Rafiu, Mohammed Awwal Yahaya and Ben Kalio were some
of the ten Superintendents of Police promoted to Chief
Superintendents, while Erhabor Orobosa Henry was one of the 17 DSPs
promoted to Superintendents of Police.

“The Chairman of the Commission, Musiliu Smith, congratulated
the beneficiaries and demanded of them, a commitment to the service
of the Nigerian nation and to operate within the laws of the land
and with the fear of God. He said the Commission will continue to
ensure that promotions in the Police will follow due process and as
and when due.”