Retirement Gale Hits Police ...4 AIGs, 14 CPs To Go This Month
Four Assistant Inspectors General of police and 14 commissioners are to retire from service by the end of this month in a gale of retirements sweeping across the police force. In the same vein, three other AIGs and eight commissioners of police are to join the league of retirees between May and December, bringing the total number of senior officers bowing out of the force this year to seven AIGs and 22 CPs.
Among the CPs whose statutory engagement in the service would terminate by February 28, are Yakubu Alkali, Simeon Midenda, Nicholas Nkemdeme, and Samson Wudah, presently in charge of the Lagos, Borno, Ogun and Cross Rivers State police commands respectively.
Others are Ibrahim Mohammed, CP Katsina command; Fabian Ojiri, Railway command; Charles Abutu, Ports Authority Command; Stephen Atama, CP Cooperative and Samson Ogunlowo, who is in charge of the Special Investigation Unit [SIU] at the police force headquarters, Abuja.
Daily Sun checks indicated that the list of police commissioners scheduled to retire with effect from March 1, 2012, also includes Emmanuel Obiakor of the Administrative unit in the ‘B’ Operations Department at the Force HQ; Lateef Junaid, who is at the Kebbi State command, and the embattled Zakari Biu, presently under suspension and trial over the recent escape of a prime Boko Haram suspect, Kabiru Umar, from his custody.
While the incumbent Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Sani Magaji, would retire on February 22, eight others, including three specialists, are expected to bow out between June and December, this year.
They are Solomon Olusegun, CP Osun command; Emmanuel Ayeni, CP Plateau State; Olayinka Balogun, CP Ekiti command; Patrick Egbuniwe, CP Interpol, FHQ, and Ezechukwu Osita, Deputy Commandant of the Police Academy, Wudil, Kano.
It was further learnt that those exiting along with them this year in the specialist category are CP Julius Ishola, who is the second-in-command at the Force Animal section; Egbune Okaa in charge of forensic at the FHQ, Mrs. Adenike Abuwa and Arnold Abuah, both of whom are commissioners of police (Medical), supervising medical facilities in police formations in the North Central and North East zones respectively.
Similarly, three Assistant Inspectors General of police, namely, Ibrahim Machi, Abubakar Mohammed, and Ibrahim Ahmed, are proceeding on retirement by the end of this month. They are presently in charge of Zone 10, Sokoto; Zone 1, Kano and Zone 5, Benin police zonal commands respectively.
Other AIGs who would join them between May and December this year, are Johnson Uzu-Egbunam, presently superintending over Zone 11, Oshogbo; Ephraim Amakulor, Zone 8, Lokoja, and John Moronike, who is the Commandant, Police Staff College, Jos. A specialist, Stephen Hart –AIG Veterinary, is also on the list, while the incumbent AIG Zone 4 command with headquarters in Makurdi, Mr. Aloysius Okorie, is slated to retire in the next two weeks.
Daily Sun can authoritatively report that the names of ten commissioners of police have been forwarded to the Police Service Commission [PSC], for promotion to the rank of AIG. Sources hinted that the officers were recommended for elevation to the next rank in a memo sent to the PSC on January 23, two days before the retirement of Alhaji Hafiz Ringim, the immediate past Inspector General of police [IGP].
It was learnt that the officers were nominated strictly on the basis of seniority in the service, and the beneficiaries included the commissioner of police, Osun Command, Solomon Olusegun; CP Intelligence, Christopher Dega; CP Administration ‘F’ Department, FHQ; Edgar Nanakumo, the deputy Force Secretary; Emmanuel Udeoji, and the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command, Micheal Zuokumor.
Others on the list of seniority are Samson Wudah, Sani Magaji, Orubebe Ebikeme, Philemon Leha, and Jonathan Johnson. There are, however, fears that a CP among those expected to have been recommended for promotion (names withheld by us), may be dropped by the PSC, following a query issued to him recently over an attack by members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect on a formation under his command, which led to his inclusion among officers to face the Force Disciplinary Committee [FDC], the highest disciplinary organ in the police force.
Sources close to the PSC told Daily Sun that the list of officers promoted to the rank of AIG might be released within this week, to pave way for the commencement of nominations and screening for those that would be appointed to the rank of Deputy Inspectors General of police, with the vacuum created by the compulsory retirement of all the DIGs along with Ringim last week.
Intrigues, suspense and intense lobby at the national and geo-political levels would form the hallmark of the battle for the position of DIG, which is expected to be tough among the contenders.
source: sunnewsonline
