CP Eribo Replaces Late Ayilara as the new Commissioner of Police Akwa Ibom.

 

Story by Iyiola Ayomide 

The Police Service Commission PSC has posted Commissioner of Police CP Joseph  O. Eribo to the Akwa Ibom police Command as the new Police

Commissioner.

Now, CP Eribo replaces late CP Waheed Ayilara who died recently at a Lagos hospital after a prostrate cancer related surgery. Earlier, CP Miller Gagere Dantawaye was deployed to the State Command as the substantive Commissioner but was changed within twenty four hours by the PSC upon recommendation by the Inspector-General of Police IGP Kayode Egbetokun.

CP Joseph O. Eribo, new Police commissioner Akwa Ibom State

 

Dantawaye was one of the four Commissioners of Police recommended for posting as substantive Commissioners of Police.

According to a statement by the spokesperson of the PSC, Ikechukwu Ani. “CP Joseph Eribo, a law graduate of the University of Calabar was at a time Liason Officer at the Police Service Commission, and later Assistant Commissioner,  Federal Operations, Force Headquarters.

“He served as Area Commander Area M, Lagos, Area F Lagos and State CID, Lafia Nasarawa state. He was Area Commander Agodi, Ibadan, Oyo State, Deputy Commissioner, Zonal CID Zone 9 Umuahia and Deputy Commissioner Operations, Kogi State Command. He was also the substantive Commissioner of Police, in Taraba State.

“The commission had earlier approved the posting of four Commissioners of Police which included that of Abia, Lagos and Ebonyi states.”