Controversy has arisen in Lagos police command as in less than two days, three commissioners of police have been identified as commissioner of police in the state.
A report early in the week read that according to a recommendation from the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba to the Police Service Commission (PSC) CP Idowu Owohunwa is being posted to Lagos and CP Frank Mba will be redeployed to head Ogun State Command.
According to the authorities, the proposed posting of commissioners of police, signed by the Force Secretary , AIG Hafiz Inuwa . Owohunwa who hails from Kogi State, holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice Studies and Policing from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
A Chevening Scholar, he holds a Diploma in Police Strategic Management at the University of Virginia, USA. He is a graduate of the globally recognized FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, USA.Owohunwa served as PSO-IGP between 2015 and 2016, and as PSO to the immediate past IGP, Mohammed Adamu. He is still Principal Staff Officer to IGP Alkali Baba.
Mba, a lawyer and a member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), is an alumnus of the University of Dundee, Scotland – United Kingdom, where he earned a Master’s Degree in Law.An IVLP scholar with a Diploma in Police Strategic Management from the University of Virginia, USA, Mba is a graduate of the prestigious FBI National Academy (FBINA) in Quantico, Virginia, USA.He holds a Certificate in National and International Security from Harvard University, USA.
He was posted as CP Border Patrol shortly after he graduated from NIPSS (National Insitute of Policy and Strategic Studies).
However ,late on Thursday, news began to make the rounds that CP Frank Mba was deployed to the Lagos state police command. While the news is still being received the Lagos State police Command in a swift reaction, refuted the news of any deployment of a new police commissioner to the state. The Lagos state command spokesperson SP Benjamin Hundeyin said " The Lagos state police command has been inundated with requests for clarification on the status of the Commissioner of Police in the Command.
We wish to state categorically that the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State is still CP Abiodun Alabi, fdc, mnim, psc. For the avoidance of doubt, no Commissioner of Police has been posted to Lagos State.
Members of the public are therefore urged to disregard fake news making the rounds that a new Commissioner of Police has been deployed to Lagos State Police Command.
It is hoped that this clarification would halt the barrage of calls to officers of the Command which has resulted in needless distraction and waste of valuable time.
The Lagos State Police Command will keep residents and the good people of Lagos
State updated whenever the need arises.
This is not the first time controversy will arise over the deployment of a commissioner of police to the Lagos state police command. One of such saga involved the former Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, in 2019 few weeks to the general elections. CP Edgal said he was stopped by the police headquarters in Abuja from handing over to the then appointed acting Commissioner of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun. Journalists were already invited to witness his handover to his Egbetokun when he received a directive from Abuja to suspend the action.
Reacting to the development, Mr. Ebenezer Omiejalile the coordinator of Advocates for Children and Vulnerable Persons Network ACVPN said
"I hope this not another Dejavu playing out in Lagos State, this remind me of Former CP Edgard Saga it was back and forth until until the emergence of AIG Muazu".
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