Idowu Owohunwa has assumed official duties as the new commissioner of police in Lagos State.
This was disclosed by the Lagos State Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, on Tuesday, through his official Twitter account.
Owohunwa takes over from CP Abiodun Alabi, fdc who was redeployed as Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2 Headquarters, Onikan, Lagos.
CP Idowu Owohunwa hails from Kabba, Kogi State and was commissioned into the Nigeria Police Force as a Cadet Officer (Course 19/1996) on 15th August, 1996 after graduating with a Second Class Upper Division Degree from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. He emerged as the Overall Best Graduating Cadet Officer in Professional Studies at the Police Academy, Kano.
He also holds the professional record of being the only officer in the history of the Nigeria Police to have been appointed and re- appointed as the Principal Staff Officer to three different Inspectors- General of Police over a period of about six years, having served in that capacity under IGP Solomon Arase (Rtd), IGP Mohammed Abubakar Adamu (Rtd) and IGP Usman Alkali Baba, the incumbent Inspector General of Police from where he was deployed as Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command.
