Shake up in police

By Our Reporter on August 29, 2015 National

■ 19 AIGs, 49 CPs, others redeployed
BY CHIOMA IGBOKWE
Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Solomon Arase, has ap­proved the redeployment of 19 Assistant Inspectors-General of Police and 49 Commissioners of Police in a new wave of shake up that hit the force on Friday.
Among the AIGs redeployed are Mbu Joseph Mbu, AIG Zone 2 who will resume as Commandant, Po­lice Staff College, Jos. Others are AIG Johnson Ogunsakin who was posted to Zone 12, Bauchi, AIG Bala Hassan as AIG zone 2, Tambari Mohammed as AIG Zone 1, Kano, Mohammed Abubakar, AIG Zone 3, Yola, Yahaya Ardo, AIG Zone 4, Makurdi, Musa Daura, AIG Zone 5, Benin, Adisa Baba Bolanta , AIG Zone 6, Calabar, Ballah Magaji Na­sarawa, AIG Zone 7, Lawal Tanko, AIG Zone 8, Lokoja, Usman Gwary, AIG Zone 9,Umuahia, Mohammed Gana, AIG Zone 10, Sokoto and Helen Kalafite Adeyemi, AIG Zone 11, Osogbo.
Commissioners posted are Fatai Owoseni was retained as the CP La­gos while Emmanuel Ojukwu, the Force Public Relations Officer will resume as CP Kogi State. Others are Chris Ezike who is now CP Edo, while Hyelasinda Kimo Musa will resume as CP Rivers. Full details of the CPs postings had been released earlier in the week.
In a statement signed by the Dep­uty Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Abayomi Shogunle, the IG ex­plained that the posting was neces­sary following the vacancies created from the recent retirement and pro­motions of senior police officers.
The IGP charged the officers to ensure that their duties are in con­formity with the strategic policing plans of the current leadership of the Force, aimed at ensuring adequate security of lives and property.
Meanwhile IGP Arase has also ap­proved the appointment of Acting ACP Olabisi Alofe Kolawole as the new Force Public Relations Officer. ACP Kolawole becomes the first fe­male police officer to be appointed the force’s spokesperson at the na­tional level.
She replaces Emmanuel Ojukwu who is now the Commissioner of Police, Kogi State Command.
Similarly, the IGP has appointed Acting ACP Idowu Owohunwa as his Principal Staff Officer (PSO). He was the pioneer head of the In­telligence Analysis Unit of the Force Intelligence Bureau and Personal Assistant (PA) to IGP Arase.