Emma Sunday, Port Harcourt
Newly promoted Assistant Inspection General of Police, AIG, Mohammed Bala Mustapha has officially handed over mantle of leadership to CP Olubenga Adewale Adepoju, as the new Commissioner of Police in Rivers State.
Speaking during a brief handover ceremony at the Police Officers’ Mess in Port Harcourt, AIG Bala Mustapha who was deployed to Zone 6 Command Headquarters Calabar, thanked the officers and men of the Rivers State Police Command as well as residents of the state for their support and cooperation during his three months in-charge as the Commissioner of Police in Rivers State.
AIG Bala said the Rivers Police Command during his 3-months administration recorded several achievements in crime fighting, peace keeping, human and infrastructural developments in the state.
He congratulated his successor, CP Olubenga Adepoju, who was the Deputy Commissioner of Police working with him while he was in-charge in the state,
stating that he worked peaceful in Rivers and is left in peace.
He urged officers of the command, Rivers People and the media to give the the new CP, Adepoju all the necessary support to enable him succeed in policing of Rivers State.
Responding, the new Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, CP Olugbenga Adepoju thanked his predecessor, AIG Mustapha Bala for his fatherly disposition.
CP Adepoju said “On behalf of officers and men of the command,I express my gratitude to AIG Bala.He has seen us through alot.He has shown exceptional leadership.We enjoyed his stay in Rivers”.
