PSC Elevates Two To DIG, Promotes Over 3,800 Senior Officers

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has promoted more than 3,800 senior police officers, including two Deputy Inspectors-General (DIGs), 10 Assistant Inspectors-General (AIGs) and 17 Commissioners of Police (CPs).

The promotions were approved at the commission’s plenary meeting held in Abuja on Thursday, following the officers’ performance in promotion examinations and oral interviews.

The PSC Chairman, Hashimu Salihu Argungu, presided over the meeting, according to a statement issued by the commission’s Head of Protocol and Public Relations, Torty Njoku Kalu.

The two officers elevated to the rank of DIG are Olaolu Adegbite, who heads the INTERPOL National Central Bureau in Abuja, and Dankombo F. Morris, the head of Zone 4 Headquarters in Makurdi.

Adegbite previously served as Director of Operations at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He holds a degree in Russian Language from the University of Lagos and a master’s degree in Philology from the Pushkin Institute, Moscow.

He is also a recipient of the national honour of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR), a member of the FBI National Academy Associates and an alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School.

Morris, who is from Gombe State, holds a degree in History from the University of Maiduguri and a Diploma in Police Science. He previously served as Commissioner of Police in Adamawa State before heading Zone 4 Headquarters, Makurdi.

The commission also elevated 10 Commissioners of Police to the rank of AIG. They include Omosanyin Olusegun, Ogbodo Ugobueze, Ohagwu Felix Ndukwe, Taylor Lennox Olanrewaju, Regina Cosmas Udoette, Afolabi Wilfred Olutokunbo, Nwogoh Martin, Shetima Jauro Mohammed, Ibrahim D. Gotan and Danjuma I. Yahaya.

Another 17 officers were promoted to Commissioners of Police. They include Nache Bashir Liman, Sirajo Lawal Salihu, Ayeleye Adegboyega, Isiaka O. Salau, Usman Shaik Adamu, Aminu Maiwada Garba, Abdulkarim Musa Waziri and Muhammad Yusuf Adamu.

Others are Sani Adamu Nufawa, Bello M. Adamu, Okezie Chikezie C., Aminu Usman Gusau, Abiodun Onuoha, Salisu Bello Fago, Adegoke A. Alani, Wuwa Auwal Muhammad and Benedict U. Agbo.

The promotions also cover 85 officers elevated from Assistant Commissioners of Police to Deputy Commissioners of Police, 49 Chief Superintendents of Police to Assistant Commissioners, 245 Superintendents of Police to Chief Superintendents and 498 Deputy Superintendents of Police to Superintendents.

The largest group comprises 3,218 Assistant Superintendents of Police promoted to Deputy Superintendents.

Congratulating the newly promoted officers, Argungu urged them to see their elevation as a call to greater responsibility, particularly in protecting lives and property and enforcing the law.

He said the promotions should motivate them to perform better, adding that much was expected of them in their new ranks.