Give your best service to justify promotion -Kwara CP

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Give your best service to justify promotion -Kwara CP

Six senior police officers of the Kwara State Command recently promoted have been charged to continue to give their best as a way of reciprocating the confidence which the Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Alkali Baba, reposed in them.

Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Mr Paul Odama, gave the charge in Ilorin, the state capital, on Friday, while decorating the six senior Police Officers from the Command who were elevated to higher ranks within the force.

According to a statement by SP Okasanmi Ajayi, Police Public Relations Officer) PPRO), Kwara State Command, “Six officers of the Command were beneficiaries of the most recent promotion released by the IGP, Usman Alkali Baba, NPM fdc psc CFR. Three Chief Superintendents of Police (CSP) were promoted to the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), and three Superintendents of Police (SP) were equally promoted to the ranks of Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP).

“The officers affected by the promotion are Csps Fatai Odunewu, Franklin, and Babarinsa, who were promoted to ACP, and SPs Mustapha Olayemi, Umar Jerry and Abiola Mustapha who were promoted to the ranks of CSP.

“While appreciating the Inspector General of Police and the chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC) for the promotions, the CP reiterated the need for the promoted officers to give their best in reciprocating the IGP’s confidence in them. He also told them that the reward for hard work is more work.”

Odama, who said that the promotion was an added responsibility for the officers advised others who were desirous of benefiting from promotion to continue to do their best to serve God through humanity at all times and noted that promotion came from God.

The CP was assisted by Dcp Steve Yabanet of the State CID, Dcp Adekimi Ojo of the Operations Department, and Dcp Nurudeen Abdulraheem in charge of Police Administration in the decorations of the newly promoted officers in the presence of their wives and relatives at the Kwara State police conference hall, Police Headquarters Ilorin.

“The CP jokingly stated at the conclusion of the event that the promoted officers have received their Easter and Ramadan gifts from the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, and as such must reciprocate the admirable gesture with more work and set a good example for the junior officers”, Odama said.