IGP Recommends Frank Mba, Idowu Owohunwa To PSC To Be Appointed As Lagos, Ogun Police Commissioners

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has recommended the appointment of CP Frank Mba as the next Commissioner of Police for Lagos State to the Police Service Commission.

Also recommended to the PSC to take over as Commissioner of Police, Ogun State, is CP Idowu Owohunwa.

In a letter dated January 24, 2023, and signed by Hafiz Inuwa,  assistant inspector general of police to the Police Service Commission (PSC), the commissioners have been posted to Lagos and Ogun states respectively.

While Mba would be replacing Abiodun Alabi in Lagos, Owohunwa would take over from Lanre Bankole in Ogun.

The redeployment comes less than a month before the elections.

Nigerians will be going to the polls next month to elect a new president to replace Muhammadu Buhari who is completing his second term in office.

The letter said the posting was part of the strategy to strengthen the strategic and operational control of Lagos and Ogun commands.

“I am directed to humbly write and forward the proposed posting of the under-mentioned commissioners of police to state commands indicated against their names for the commission’s kind consideration and approval,” the letter reads.

“The inspector-general of police is deploying the under-mentioned commissioners of police to strengthen the strategic and operational control of the commands.”

Mba, prior to his posting to Ogun, was the commissioner of police in charge of the border patrol force, Force Headquarters, Abuja.

In April 2021, he was retained as the spokesperson of the Nigeria Police, for the second time in a row.

But last year, Olumuyiwa Adejobi took over from Mba as the new force public relations officer (FPRO).

Mba was also nominated by the inspector-general of police for a senior executive course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos.

On his part, Owohunwa was the principal staff officer of the IGP.