The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has directed Mr. Kayode Egbetokun to take over from erstwhile Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, as the Acting Police Commissioner in the state.

Sources said Edgal has been directed to take charge of the Explosives and Ordinance Disposal Unit at the Force headquarters, Abuja.

It could not be immediately ascertained if Egbetokun, who was former Chief Security Officer to former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, would be made the substantive CP.

The new acting Lagos Police boss was the CP in charge of Explosives and Ordinance unit.

He also supervised the Osun governorship election in Ikire town, where a number of buses and motorcycles were seized for violating the restriction of movement during the poll.

A source said, “The redeployment of Egbetokun to Lagos was part of the Police operational strategies ahead of the 2019 general elections.

“You will recall that a number of senior Police officers, including Command Commissioners of Police, were redeployed in the past few weeks, which the Force headquarters has deliberately not made public, contrary to the usual practice.”

Our correspondent had reported exclusively last week that the Force had been carrying out a massive redeployment of senior officers across the country.

Findings indicate that the Police leadership had, in the past weeks, redeployed the CPs in Zamfara, Edo, Ekiti, Imo and Bauchi Commands ahead of the polls holding next month.

This is coming against the backdrop of the expected retirement of the IG, who would clock 60 years on Tuesday.



Egbetokun was a Deputy Superintendent of Police in 1999 when he was appointed the CSO to then Governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu; and in that capacity coordinated the security of the entire state while reporting to the governor.

He served as the Commander, Rapid Response Squad, Lagos, Squadron Commander, Mopol 5, Benin, Benin City, Officer-in-Charge, Anti-Fraud Unit, FCT Command, Abuja, Chief Superintendent of Police, Administration, Lagos State Command Head Quarters, Ikeja, Area Commander, Osogbo, Osun State Command and Area Commander, Gusau, Zamfara State Command, among others.

Egbetokun graduated from the University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, with Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics in June 1987 and lectured Mathematics briefly at Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, before his enlistment into the Police Force.

His other academic qualifications include MSC Engineering Analysis, also from the University of Lagos, Akoka, 1996, Post-Graduate Diploma in Petroleum Economics from Delta State University, Abraka, 2000, and an MBA from Lagos State University, Ojo, 2004.

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Nigeria becoming a full fledged Banana Republic.

God help us from Tinubu

infact i pray for our democracy ooooo,cos waitin buhari and apc want to turn nigeria to,its only God can help us...

akinhanger:
God help us from Tinubu

tinubu is not your problem you should blame your parents that was lazy to slug it out when the elites were building their empire

What is the point for all these elections? Why not just swear in all the apc candidates from the presidency down to the councilor level and save us from all the wahala, death of innocent ctizens and the humongous electoral expenditure.

From Lagos CP to Bomb disposal unit. So they not only are taking food from his mouth, they want to kill him on top of everything LOL.
I am very happy the way PDP are being paid back in own coins in very cruel ways by Buhari.
God has turned his back on them for 16 years of rigging, assassinations, cornering if economic opportunities and corruptment if judges.

If the democracy is not working let it die. It gets much worse from this point on and no mercy. People must pay.

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I like the qualifications of the incoming Acting CP.

He also looks urbane.

God bless Nigeria, God bless Lagos state,God bless us all

Wiseandtrue:
ExBuhari is only using Tinubu. If not that Nigeria will be badly damaged should APC win again, I would have preferred they win so that Tinubu will see what will become of him after the elections

What has Tinubu got to do with police redeployment?
I don't understand why most of you in this forum try to connect Tinubu with everything going on while he's not even a political office holder in the country.

Is that how powerful he is? Na wa for Una o

4 + 4 means 4 years for Buhari and 4 years for Tinubu.
IG takes order from Tinubu and Osho baba the master planner

If you know you know

kingkakaone:

What has Tinubu got to do with police redeployment?
I don't understand why most of you in this forum try to connect Tinubu with everything going on while he's not even a political office holder in the country.

Is that how powerful he is? Na wa for Una o

You have no idea how stupid this Biafrans can be ?

Just imagine the statement of a supposed sufferdticated M.O.R.O.N...

Each passing day things are getting so pathetic and these APC zombies believe that yawa no go touch dem?

We dey watch as events unfold. ..shortsighted buzu!

ORIENTATION101:
tinubu is not your problem you should blame your parents that was lazy to slug it out when the elites were building their empire

Hmmm

ORIENTATION101:
tinubu is not your problem you should blame your parents that was lazy to slug it out when the elites were building their empire

Must you insult someone innocent parents ? DE guy no even talk to you.

No go die because of Tinubu matter ooo

ORIENTATION101:
tinubu is not your problem you should blame your parents that was lazy to slug it out when the elites were building their empire

What and what have you and your parents achieved so far

kingkakaone:

What has Tinubu got to do with police redeployment?
I don't understand why most of you in this forum try to connect Tinubu with everything going on while he's not even a political office holder in the country.

Is that how powerful he is? Na wa for Una o

Even if they can't get their wives pregnant in the other room, they will blame it on Tinubu

Tinubu is part of our problem

Since his thug has been taken care off,he is now relying on the police.
He will still fail in failbuhari becos 4+0=back2daura

kingkakaone:

What has Tinubu got to do with police redeployment?
I don't understand why most of you in this forum try to connect Tinubu with everything going on while he's not even a political office holder in the country.

Is that how powerful he is? Na wa for Una o

You've said it all.
END OF DISCUSSION!