MICHAEL AKINOLA
Reports have it that Mr. Fatai Owoseni, Lagos State Commissioner of Police has been replaced.
The new Lagos CP is Garuba Umar.
Umar will be coming to take charge of the Lagos Command Headquarters four days after his promotion to the rank of Commissioner of Police.
Until his new assignment, Umar was the Officer-in-Charge of Inspector-General of Police monitoring unit.
He once served as the Divisional Police Officer, Ikoyi, Lagos, and Mobile Police Unit 19 Commander in Port Harcourt.
Owoseni, who became Lagos CP in July 2015, has been posted to the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, in Jos.
The IGP, Ibrahim Idris, had on Friday decorated the Force Public Relations Officer, Don Awunah and eight other promoted senior police officers with their new ranks.
The newly promoted officers were four Deputy Commissioners of Police Bello Ahmed, Don Awunah, Afeez Inuwa and Garuba Umar, who are now Ag. CPs; Assistant Commissioner of Police Abu Sanni, now an acting DCP; Adamu Bakore, Kolo Yusuf and Abba Kyari, who are ACPs and Abdulkareem Abdullahi, now a Superintendent of Police.
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