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Police Commission approves deployment of 37 CPs
The 36 states and Abuja are to receive new commissioners of police (CPs) as the Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved their deployment.
The PSC said in a statement yesterday, quoted its chairman, Sir Mike Okiro as saying, that the deployment was aimed at reinvigorating the various state commands.
PSC’s spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, who signed the statement, added, that it is also geared towards effective and efficient policing, in line with the change agenda of the present 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.
One of the affected officers is the Force spokesman, Emmanuel Ojukwu, who has been deployed to Kogi state.
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Others are: Habila (Abia State); Adejo Gabriel Adaji (Adamawa State); Muritala U. Mani (Akwa Ibom State); Karma Hosea (Anambra State); Mohammed K. Mohmmed (Bauchi State); P. Okafor (Bayelsa State); Dibai P. Yakadi (Benue State); J. Opadokun (Borno State) and Henry Fadairo (Cross River State).
Others are Usman Bala Alkali (Delta State); P Abdallah (Ebonyi); Chris Ezike (Edo); Etop J. James (Ekiti); Mohammed Adamu (Enugu); Wilson Inalegwu (FCT); Austin Iwar (Gombe); T. Lakanu (Imo); U. Tilli Abubakar (Jigawa); U. U. Shehu (Kaduna); M. Katsina (Kano); U. Abdullahi (Katsina); Yakubu O. Jubrin (Kebbi); E. Amadasun (Kwara) F. Owoseni (Lagos); Mohammed Sani Usman (Nasarawa); Abubakar Marafa (Niger); Abdulmajid Ali (Ogun); M. Ogbodu (Ondo); K. Shodipo (Osun); Leye Oyebade (Oyo); Nasiru Oki (Plateau); Hyelasinda Kimo Musa (Rivers); Salisu F. Abdullahi (Sokoto); Okechukwu Nwodibo (Taraba); Zanna Mohammed Ibrahim (Yobe) and Femi Ogunbayode (Zamfara).
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