PROMOTION IN NIGERIA POLICE

Police Commission favors PROMOTION of 4,542 senior cops

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has endorsed the advancement of 4,542 Senior Police Officers to their next positions amongst May and June.

This data was contained in an announcement issued in Abuja yesterday by Mr Ikechukwu Ani, the Head, Press and Public Relations of the commission.

The announcement said seven Commissioners of Police were lifted to the rank of AIG and six Deputy Commissioners of Police to Commissioners of Police.

Likewise, 20 Assistant Commissioners of Police got to be Deputy Commissioners of Police while eight SPs moved to ACs, 107 SPs to CSPs, 1,431 DSPs to SPs, 1,252 ASPs to DSPs and 1,711 to Inspectors of Police.

The announcement said three DCPs, five ACPs, four CSPs, three SPs, five DSPs and 127 ASPs were advanced on acting arrangements.

It said the commission endorsed unique advancement for 16 officers taking into account uncommon execution and devotion to obligation on the suggestion of the Inspector-General of Police.

The announcement said two officers were advanced by virtue of bravery while 188 others were set on acting arrangements of their next rank.

The announcement said the administrator of the commission, Mr Mike Okiro, asked the officers to respond government signal by rededicating themselves to the administration of the country.

He guaranteed that the commission would keep on ensuring that meriting policemen were advanced as at when because of serve as inspiration for powerful and proficient administration.

Okiro urged them to guarantee that they were guided by the affirmed principles and directions of the Force and that they worked with the apprehension of God.

He said the commission would keep on ensuring that the advancement of policemen was normal to serve as a tonic for successful and proficient administration.

The director noticed that the commission would keep on evolving rules and projects that would enhance productivity in the Force. Inspector General of Police (IGP) Solomon Arase stops today. Arase is the eighteenth indigenous IGP.

He was named in April a year ago by previous President Goodluck Jonathan.

Officers and men of the Force are tensely anticipating President Muhammadu Buhari's decision of successor.

Power representative Olabisi Kolawole said: "The IG's residency will end today and we don't know who the following IG will be as I talk.

"Indeed, even the IGP does not know but rather perhaps he will know later today (yesterday) or tomorrow (today) yet as we talk now, we are all oblivious. I am certain we will know tomorrow and will impart it to you."

Arase yesterday brightened four Assistant-Inspectors General of Police. They are AIGs Tili Abubakar, Opadokun John, Ogunbayode David and Dorothy Gimba.

Arase asked them to work harder wherever they were presented on.

He said: "The position you are today requires a considerable measure of obligation.''

Abubakar, who reacted for others, guaranteed their devotion to obligation and reliability to the power.

"We will stay more committed and faithful to the police power.

"We will keep on upholding the great principles of the Nigeria police power'', he said.

He communicated appreciation to the I-G for discovering them commendable for advancement.

Some policemen have communicated dismay over the advancement of 14 officers to Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP).

Those advanced are: Nkechi Enehikuere; Juliana Abah; Abdulkadir Jimoh; Garba Baba; Joseph Egbunike; Jonathan Towuru; Adeleke Bode and Muri Musa.

Others are: Magu Mustafa; Lawal Tanko; Celestine Eluemelu; Edward Ajogun; Sylvester Alabi and David Igbodo.

Some of those left out are crying foul over claimed "absence of due procedure"

The officers, who are unwilling to give their names, claimed that with special case of Enehikuere, Abah, Jimoh, Baba and Egbunike, the PSC forgot numerous senior officers who have gone to and passed their Senior Staff course.

"Since the IGP is going out, he has bounced the weapon in prescribing some of his followers for advancement, " an officer said.

Additionally yesterday, Arase introduced a cops' wreckage and 35 suites.

Arase said as the leader of the power, the welfare of men of the Nigeria police was his top need.

"For whatever length of time that I am the Inspector-General of Police, the welfare of my men is my main need.

"I am exceptionally unashamed in regards to the welfare of police officers,''he said.

He said the task would take care of the convenience issue being confronted by officers when they come to Abuja on authority obligation.

Burrow Mamman Tsafe, responsible for Logistics and Supply, said convenience was a convoluted issue for the police.

He said the undertaking would rake in income for the power if its support was maintained.

Tsafe hailed Arase for his vision and responsibility to finish the task began by previous Inspector-General of Police, Ogbonnaya Onovo, in 2009.

Different undertakings introduced by Arase incorporated the magistrates' quarters and the police account building.