Ibadan-born Olugbenga Adewole Adepoju has been appointed to serve as the Commissioner of Police for the Rivers State Command of the force by the Police Service Commission, (PSC).
PSC has just approved the appointment and posting of six new Commissioners of Police.
PSC said that the appointments and postings, including CP Olugbenga Adepoju’s were sequel to the recent promotions in the Nigeria Police Force released by the Commission last week.
In the new appointments, CP Shettima Jauro Mohammed was posted to Nasarawa state Command; Rabin Mohamned, now CP, Kaduna State Command and Adepoju Olugbenga Adewole posted to Rivers State Command.
Others are; Mohammed Baba Azare, now CP, Akwa Ibom State Command; Wilfred Olatokunbo Afolabi new CP Ondo State Command and Joseph Eribo, former CP, Akwa Ibom State now moved to Ekiti State as the new CP Ekiti State Command.
According to a statement issued on Tuesday by the Head, Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, the Commission Chairman, DIG Hashimu Argungu rtd said the new appointees should see their appointments as call to national service.
Argungu implored them to be committed to the Government’s drive to stabilize the nation and effectively ensure that our states are free of crime and criminality.
He said the Commission will continue to monitor their progress report and will encourage them to succeed in their new endeavours.
The PSC boss charged them to reciprocate the government’s gesture by rededicating themselves to the service of their fatherland.
CP Olugbenga Adepoju was born in 1968 and hails from Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo State. He is the fourth in a family of five. He attended primary schools in Nigeria and Malawi before completing his secondary education at Lagelu Grammar School, Agugu, Ibadan. He later proceeded to the University of Ibadan where he studied Psychology.
The new Rivers State CP has other certifications including several others from local and international trainings.
He was posted to Borno State alongside other gallant Nigeria Police Officers to serve in the height of the Boko Haram insurgency.
Until his recent appointment, he was the Deputy Commissioner of Police in Charge of Operations in Rivers State.
Packaged by Olayinka Agboola with additional reports from thenationonlineng.net
