BREAKING: Nigerian Police Service Commission Promotes Embattled Enugu Commissioner Accused Of Corruption To AIG, Elevates Eight CSPs To ACPs
A source revealed that the tipping point change into the case of an Abia Speak businessman who change into abducted, detained for three days, and extorted of N62 million.
The Police Carrier Commission has authorised the promotion of the Enugu Speak Commissioner of Police, Kanayo Uzuegbu, to the inappropriate of Assistant Inspector Total of Police.
SaharaReporters previously reported that Uzuegbu’s promotion change into delayed on account of a pair of corruption allegations against him.
A source revealed that the tipping point change into the case of an Abia Speak businessman who change into abducted, detained for three days, and extorted of N62 million.
The source talked about that “following the SaharaReporters’ investigation chronicle indicting CP Kanayo Uzuegbu within the N62 million extortion on the Enugu Speak Speak Anti-kidnapping squad unit, the PSC has at closing dropped his name within the Assistant Inspector Total (AIG) promotion.”
On February 27, SaharaReporters reported a grisly twist within the ongoing investigation into the alleged N62 million extortion by the Enugu Speak Police Speak’s anti-kidnapping squad.
The Police Carrier Commission (PSC) Chairman, retired DIG Hashimu Argungu, all staunch now withdrew from the investigation without providing a reason, sparking contemporary outrage.
A source revealed to SaharaReporters that the chairman, below intense tension, directed the events to return to the Inspector-Total of Police, citing the commission’s lack of authority to investigate the matter.
He additionally suggested the Enugu anti-kidnapping squad to return a seized Toyota Hilux automobile to Enugu, despite an earlier directive to raise it to the PSC save of job in Abuja.
In a grisly flip of events, the PSC on Tuesday announced Uzuegbu’s promotion to Assistant Inspector Total of Police.
The commission additionally authorised the appointment of up-to-the-minute Commissioners of Police for Oyo and Enugu Speak Instructions, with CP Mamman Bitrus Giwa taking on as Enugu Speak police commissioner and CP Ademola Johnson, Major Staff officer to the IGP appointed the Oyo police commissioner.
Mr Ikechukwu Ani, spokesman for the PSC, in an announcement on Tuesday, talked about: “CP Kanayo Uzuegbu, Commissioner of Police Enugu Speak Speak promoted to the following inappropriate of Assistant Inspector Total of Police (AIG), change into a broken-down Assistant Commissioner Operations Zone 9, Umuahia; Jam Commander, Owerri; Jam Commander Karu, Nasarawa negate; Commander Switch Operation Switch, Port Harcourt; Deputy Commissioner Finance and Admin Edo Speak Speak, DCP, negate CID, Osun Speak and Commissioner of Police Operations, Verbal exchange, Power Headquarters, Abuja.”
“CP Giwa change into broken-down DCP Operations Kaduna and Imo Speak Instructions; ACP Police Mobile Power, Power Headquarters Abuja; and CSP A, Commissioner of Police Mobile Power, Power Headquarters, amongst other postings within the Police Mobile Power,” the statement talked about.
Ani additionally disclosed that the commission authorised the promotion of eight Chief Superintendents of Police to Assistant Commissioners of Police.
“They are Abdullahi Kamba Usman, Sani Abdu, Ifeanyi Owo, Vincent Orole, Elisha Atikinkpan, and Margaret Okonkwo. Others are Alhasan Aliyu Guga and Imo Owinizi Ezekiel.
“The newly promoted senior Police Officers were subjected to Written examinations and interactive oral interviews,” he talked about.
