Oyo State police commissioner Ngozi Onadeko is set to become the Deputy Inspector General of Police from the South-East following the demise of Joseph Egbunike.
Per inside sources in the police service and the official course list seen by Peoples Gazette, Ms Onadeko is next in line to assume the vacant office.
Mr Egbunike died on Wednesday at the National Hospital, Abuja after he was taken in for an undisclosed illness.
Ms Onadeko was born on July 2, 1965. She graduated from Imo State University with a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 1985 and joined the police in 1988.
Since her enlistment, Ms Onadeko has served in the police force in various capacities since her enlistment. In 2019, she became the police commissioner in charge of training at the Force Headquarters in Abuja.
Before that, she worked as a Crime and Staff Officer SOI, SOJ in the Imo State Police Command between 1989 and 1993.
She had also worked as a directing staff at Police College Ikeja in Lagos State from 1993 to 2001 and also in the Lagos State Command as a Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Divisional Crime Officer (DCO), Area Crime Officer (ACO), Staff Officer, and Chief Superintendent of Police (Admin).
In 2008, she was reassigned to Police Academy Kano as a directing staff member. She was Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Intelligence (FIIB), FHQ Annex, AC X-Squad FCIID Alagbon, Area Commander, Eastern Port Authority Police Command, Port Harcourt from 2009 to 2016.
She worked as the Delta State Command’s second in command/Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of administration between 2016 and 2019, after which she enrolled in the National Defence College on September 1, 2019.
Ms Onadeko will be heading the Federal Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (FCIID), a section of the police widely perceived as most powerful and most preoccupied.
