IG Promotes 31,465 Inspectors, Junior Policemen

*Police Boss Congratulates AIGs Aishatu, Olofu On National Honours

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Usman Alkali Baba has promoted a total of 31,465 policemen, comprising 24,991 Sergeants who were promoted to Inspectors, 194 from Corporal to Sergeant, and 6,280 from Constable to Corporal.

The IGP urged the affected officers to add more pep in promoting the lofty principles and values of modern policing and discharge their duties as expected of them in line with the provisions of the extant laws.

A statement yesterday in Abuja by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO) Olumuyiwa Adejobi, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), reads: “Similarly, the IGP congratulates two Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) on the conferment of national honours on them. The very senior police officers include AIG Aishatu Abubakar, mni, who was conferred with the award of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), and AIG Olofu Tony Adejoh, who was conferred with the individual award of National Productivity Order of Merit Award (NPOM) by the National Productivity Centre, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, on the approval of the immediate past President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

“The Inspector-General of Police urged the senior officers to bring their experience, gathered over time, and the well-deserved national recognition to bear in their national policing duties.”