Abiodun Alabi to take over as Lagos CP as IGP orders posting of senior officers.

Abiodun Alabi to take over as Lagos CP as IGP orders posting of senior officers.

Abiodun Alabi will succeed Hakeem Odumosu, following the latter’s recent promotion to assistant inspector-general of police (AIG).

Usman Baba, inspector-general of police, has directed the deployment of Abiodun Alabi as the new commissioner of police in Lagos.

The posting was announced in a statement issued on Friday by Frank Mba, spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF).

Prior to the development, Abiodun worked at the force criminal investigation department (FCID) in Abuja; he was also the immediate past Benue commissioner of police.

The new Lagos CP is a National Defence College fellow and a member of the Nigeria Institute of Management.

Appointed into the Nigeria Police Force in 1990 as a cadet officer, he studied sociology at the University of Lagos.

In a related development, Haruna Garba has been deployed as the Yobe commissioner of police while Tajudeen Abass will take over as the police commissioner in Benue.

The force spokesperson said the posting of the senior police officers is with immediate effect.