Six DIGs jostle for post of Ringim.
The race for the office of the Inspector-General of Police may have begun following the retirement plans by the current police boss, Hafiz Ringim.
Ringim is scheduled to leave office by March 2012 when he would have attained the mandatory 35 years in service.
Already, six Deputy Inspectors-General of Police are eyeing the post, which is the crowning glory of their careers.
The seventh contender, Deputy Inspector-General Ganiyu Dawodu, passed on last week in Lagos and would be buried today.
The appointment of the Inspector-General is usually done by the Nigeria Police Council, which is headed by the President and composed of the 36 state governors and relevant top government functionaries, including the Minister of Police Affairs and the Chairman of the Police Service Commission.
The contenders for the position are Ivy Okoronkwo, Azubuko Udah (both representing South-East geopolitical zone), Sadauna Abubakar, (from the North-West zone), Audu Abubakar (North-East), Mohammed Yesufu (South-South) and Saleh Abubakar (North-Central).
Ringim, who became the 15th indigenous Inspector-General on September 8, 2010, following the sacking of his erstwhile boss, Ogbonna Onovo, by President Goodluck Jonathan, joined the Nigeria Police Force on March 1, 1977, rising through the ranks to become the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 9 that oversees police activities in Abia, Anambra, Enugu and Imo states.
Under the current dispensation, one of the Deputy Inspectors-General is to serve as the number two person in the police hierarchy unlike in the past, and the position was given to the first female DIG, Okoronkwo.
She had survived the sacked Onovo-led Police Management Team involving Deputy Inspectors-General Israel Ajao, Segun Efuntayo, Udom Ekpoudom, Declan Uzoma, John Ahmadu and Uba Ringim.
It is believed that Okoronkwo, being the most senior Deputy Inspector-General, may get the support of the President to become the next IG as part of the deft moves by Jonathan to win public support for his government, which is facing antagonism over some of its policies.
If appointed, Okoronkwo would leave office in 2014, having joined the force in 1978 as Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police with a degree in Sociology/Criminology from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
The Presidency, however, said the President might settle for an Assistant Inspector-General of Police as he determined to appoint an officer who could manage the precarious security situation in the country.
The race for the office of the Inspector-General of Police may have begun following the retirement plans by the current police boss, Hafiz Ringim.
Ringim is scheduled to leave office by March 2012 when he would have attained the mandatory 35 years in service.
Already, six Deputy Inspectors-General of Police are eyeing the post, which is the crowning glory of their careers.
The seventh contender, Deputy Inspector-General Ganiyu Dawodu, passed on last week in Lagos and would be buried today.
The appointment of the Inspector-General is usually done by the Nigeria Police Council, which is headed by the President and composed of the 36 state governors and relevant top government functionaries, including the Minister of Police Affairs and the Chairman of the Police Service Commission.
The contenders for the position are Ivy Okoronkwo, Azubuko Udah (both representing South-East geopolitical zone), Sadauna Abubakar, (from the North-West zone), Audu Abubakar (North-East), Mohammed Yesufu (South-South) and Saleh Abubakar (North-Central).
Ringim, who became the 15th indigenous Inspector-General on September 8, 2010, following the sacking of his erstwhile boss, Ogbonna Onovo, by President Goodluck Jonathan, joined the Nigeria Police Force on March 1, 1977, rising through the ranks to become the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 9 that oversees police activities in Abia, Anambra, Enugu and Imo states.
Under the current dispensation, one of the Deputy Inspectors-General is to serve as the number two person in the police hierarchy unlike in the past, and the position was given to the first female DIG, Okoronkwo.
She had survived the sacked Onovo-led Police Management Team involving Deputy Inspectors-General Israel Ajao, Segun Efuntayo, Udom Ekpoudom, Declan Uzoma, John Ahmadu and Uba Ringim.
It is believed that Okoronkwo, being the most senior Deputy Inspector-General, may get the support of the President to become the next IG as part of the deft moves by Jonathan to win public support for his government, which is facing antagonism over some of its policies.
If appointed, Okoronkwo would leave office in 2014, having joined the force in 1978 as Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police with a degree in Sociology/Criminology from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
The Presidency, however, said the President might settle for an Assistant Inspector-General of Police as he determined to appoint an officer who could manage the precarious security situation in the country.
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