The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the posting and redeployment of eight (8) Commissioners of Police (CPs) to State Commands and Formations across the country for operational and administrative effectiveness.
Force Public Relations Officer CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi made this known in a statement on Thursday in Abuja that, this is in line with the Manpower Development Policy of the Force.
The newly posted/redeployed senior officers are CP GOMBE COMMAND - CP ETIM OQUA EFFIOM, CP KANO COMMAND - CP MAMMAN DAUDA, CP BAUCHI COMMAND - CP AMINU ALHASSAN, CP CPTU STAFF COLLEGE JOS, and CP BABATUNDE BABAITA ISHOLA.
Others are CP X-SQUAD FCID ANNEX LAGOS – CP MAMMAN UMAR SANDA, CP FCID ANNEX GOMBE – CP JOHN AYUBA BABANGIDA, CP SAFER HIGHWAY FHQ ABUJA – CP AKINWALE ADENIRAN, And CP DFA FCID ANNEX LAGOS – CP ABUBAKAR LAWAL.
The IGP also asured that the posting and redeployment of Senior Police Officers, which is regular in order to align with the Force’s policy on strategic human capacity deployment, will further help in driving the IGP’s policing vision targeted at improving policing services across the country.
Similarly, the police force urge Nigerians to disregard false, unfounded, and misleading news being peddled that the former Commissioner of Police of Kano State, CP Abubakar Lawal, was redeployed from Kano on allegations of corruption.
Adejobi re-emphasize in his statement that postings in the Force is a normal routine geared towards strengthening human capacity and knowledge diffusion for the betterment of the Force.
The posting and the redeployment of the Senior Police Officers is with immediate effect.