New AIG assumes duty in zone 5, Benin

A new Assistant Inspector General of Police has assumed duty in zone 5 Command headquarters, Benin City. He is AIG Ahmad Abdurrahman.

The new AIG assumed duty on December 16, 2021, after taking over from AIG Isaac O. Akinmoyede who has been redeployed to zone 9, Umuahia.

Zone 5 Command with its headquarters on Adesuwa road in Benin City is in charge of Edo and Delta States police command.

The new AIG however solicited the cooperation

of the general public in checkmating crime and criminality in the zone.

AIG. Ahmad AbdurRahman was born in  Kuru, Jos, Plateau State but hails from Bulakko in Kirfi Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

The zone 5 Public Relations Officer DSP Tijani Momoh disclosed this in a statement dated 20^th December 2021 and posted on Edo State Police Command official WhatsApp page at 10:11 pm, last Monday.

“AIG. Ahmad AbdurRahman, mni joined the Nigeria Police Academy on 3rd March 1990 as a Cadet Officer. He was commissioned as Assistant Superintendent of Police and deployed to Oyo State Police Command in 1991.

“In the course of his career, the AIG has attended so many professional courses both home and abroad. These include an International Certificate in Drug Awareness and Intelligence from the International Police Task Force under UNMIBH, Bosnia and Herzegovina,  International Certificate in Better Governance and Anti-Corruption Policy from the Civil Service College, Singapore, an International Certificate in Intelligence-Led Policing organized by the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Chicago, U.S.A. An International Certificate in Crime Scene Investigation and Technology from the Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A, International Certificate in United Nations Police Peace-keeping operations from the Norwegian Police University…..

“The AIG has held several appointments which include: Police Public Relations Officer, Plateau State Command; Detective at Force Intelligence and Investigation Bureau (FIIB); O/C Crime section, Zonal Intelligence Bureau, ZIB Kano; Chief Security Officer to IGP Ibrahim Coomasie, mni (Rtd), O/C State CID, Ogun State Command; ACP Operations, Kaduna State Command; Deputy Commandant, Nigeria Police College, Kaduna. DC Operations, Kaduna State Command. Commissioner of Police, Special Fraud Unit, FCID, FHQ, Abuja; Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State Command; CP. Bayelsa State Command. CP. Kaduna State Command; CP. Force Intelligence Bureau, FHQ, Abuja, and Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command before being nominated for the Senior Executive Course at NIPPS where he was promoted to the prestigious rank of an Assistant Inspector-General of Police on 3rd February 2021”. DSP Tijani statement explained.