Newly promoted DIGs get portfolios

Etim Ekpimah 

Following the recent promotion of Senior Police Officers by the Police Service Commission, the Inspector-General of Police, M.A Adamu, NPM, mni, has ordered the posting/redeployment of five newly promoted Deputy Inspectors General of Police to oversee Departments of the Force, whose former heads retired recently after the completion of their service years. 

The Force Public Relations Officer, CP Frank Mba, who said this in a statement on Friday, added that the promoted Senior Officers; DIG Usman Alkali Baba, fdc will head the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID); DIG Ibrahim A. Lamorde, mni – Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB); DIG David Oyebanji Folawiyo, mni – Department of Information and Communication Technology (ICT); DIG Joseph O. Egbunike – Department of Finance and Administration; DIG Dan-Mallam Mohammed, fdc – Department of Training and Development. 

He noted that AIG Moses Ambakina Jitoboh, mni was redeployed from the Border Patrol Section to Acting DIG in-charge of the Department of Research and Planning. 

According to him, the IGP, while congratulating the Officers, who by this promotion and posting, are now members of the Force Management Team, charges them to bring their vast experience and professionalism to bear in their leadership of the Departments to enhance the ongoing reforms and repositioning of the Force. 

He added that the postings/redeployments are with immediate effect.