By BASHIR ADEFAKA
The new Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Maritime Police Command (MPC) of the Nigerian Police Force, AIG Abdul Dahiru Wanwawu, has resumed duty in Lagos.
AIG Danwawu, a member of the national institute (mni), had been Commissioner of Police (CP) Armament as one of the many posts he had held in the NPF before his promotion, decoration and instant redeployment along 17 other newly promoted AIGs on 6 February 2019.
Among promoted AIGs with Danwawu was AIG Muhammad Mustafa, who was Commissioner of Police Delta State and got promoted to the rank of AIG shortly after he was posted to take charge as Commissioner of Police Ebonyi State.
While AIG Muhammad Mustafa, like others, have since resumed duty as AIG Zone 10 Sokoto covering Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara states, AIG Danwawu was briefly deployed for elections duties in a North Eastern state before finally coming to his main duty post in Lagos after the elections as AIG Maritime Police Command.
The Maritime Police Command Headquarters, Kam Salem House, Lagos is one unit of the Abubakar Mohammed Adamu-led Nigerian Police Force that has made its own mark ensuring security and safety of the Nigerian maritime environment thereby enabling stakeholders in the economic sector push their businesses for the growth of selves and national economy.
The Command, which news of birth broke into the public air space on Thursday March 14, 2013 by a press release issued by the then Force PRO, CSP Frank Mba under the administration of Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Muhammad Abubakar, is today being reinvigorated by the current IGP Mohammed Adamu leadership to meet up with the aims and aspirations of the Muhammadu Buhari Administration.
Currently headed by the Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) Abdul Dahiru Danwawu, the Maritime Police Command Headquarters, Moloney, Lagos is working hard not only to be seen as working but as more actively impactful of positive change in the Maritime sector especially in ways which help stakeholders feel the dividends of Ease of Doing Business (EODB) programme the Office of the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has engendered, as coordinating centre for the national economy in enabling the smallest of economic actors help himself and help Nigerian economy grow in line with the economic diversification programme of the Buhari Administration.
As the very fusion of the Marine Police Command, the Police Ports Authority Command and the Inland Waterways Formation of the Nigerian Police, what has today become more energized Maritime Police Command was established to enjoy the status of a zonal command with an Assistant Inspector General (AIG) as head being that it is the convention for police zonal commands which groups together a number of state police commands – which are in turn commanded by Commissioners of Police.
In breaking the news on Thursday March 14, 2013, CSP Frank Mba said, “The Maritime Police Command is further broken into Western Maritime Command with headquarters in Lagos, the Eastern Maritime Command with headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and the Marine Command with headquarters also situated in Lagos.”
It should be noted that Frank Mba has again returned to Loui’s Edet House as the Force PRO but on a rank higher than a CSP having being promoted some years back now to the rank of an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP).
The Maritime Police Command, which at that time of its establishment, was steered by its pioneer head, AIG Mike Idakwo, has had more than 10 heads including AIG Muhammad Musa Katsina, AIG Pius Imueh who died in office in September 2017 while he would have been due for his retirement in October same year before his untimely death, AIG Felix Ogundeji who was appointed to replace Imueh and had been there, until the appointment of AIG, Alkali Baba Usman. The Command, has had an AIG who did not stay for long between Alkali and now AIG Dahiru Danwawu, who has just resumed duty as the new AIG in charge of the Maritime Police Command that is a zonal command in the Force.
