Following the appointment of 37 Command Commissioners of Police for the 36 states of the federation and FCT Abuja, Mu’azu Zubairu will be replacing Edgal Imohimi, as the Lagos State Commissioner of Police.
The appointment was based on the recommendation of the acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu.
Kayode Egbetokun, who was recently appointed as a Commissioner in Lagos, has also been redeployed to Kwara State.
According to the statement, new appointments and redeployment were done across all 36 states of the country and the FCT.
The Commissioners are expected to proceed immediately to their new Commands, ahead of the 2019 general elections as the new deployments were made with the 2019 general elections in mind.
The new Police Commissioners are:
1. Katsina State – Buba Sanusi.
2. Kano State – Mohammed Wakili.
3. Jigawa State Rabiu Ladodo.
4. Ogun State – Ahmed Iliyasu.
5. Lagos State – Mu’azu Zubairu.
6. Niger State – Ibrahim Sabo.
7. Taraba State -Alkassam Sanusi.
8. Adamawa State – Garba M. Mukaddas.
9. Benue State – Omololu Bishi
10. Nassarawa State – Bola Longe.
11. Plateau State -Isaac Akinmoyede
12. Edo State – Odumosu Hakeem.
13. Bayelsa State – Olushola David
14. Delta State – Adeleke Yinka.
15. Cross River State – Austin Iwero Agbonlahor
16. Akwa Ibom State -Bashir Makama
17. Ebonyi State – Awosola Awotunde.
18. Rivers State – Belel Usman.
19. Gombe State – Bello Makwashi.
20. Kaduna State – Abdulrahman Ahmed.
21. FCT – Bala Ciroma.
22. Kwara State -Egbetokun Kayode.
23. Kogi State – Hakeem Busari.
24. Ekiti State – Asuquo Amba.
25. Imo State – Galadanchi Dasuki.
26. Enugu State -Suleiman Balarabe.
27. Anambra State -Dandaura Mustapha.
28. Abia state -Etim Ene Okon.
29. Sokoto state – Ibrahim Kaoje
30. Zamfara State -Celestine Okoye.
31. Kebbi State – Garba Danjuma
32. Osun State – Abiodun Ige
33. Ondo State -Undie Adie
34. Oyo State – Olukolu Shina.
35. Bauchi State – Ali Janga.
36. Borno State -Damian Chukwu and
37. Yobe State – Sumonu Abdulmalik