Festus Eribo Replaces Dantawaye As Akwa Ibom Commissioner of Police

The Police Service Commission, PSC, has replaced and posted a new Commissioner Of Police, Festus Eribo, to Akwa Ibom State Police Command.

The PSC by this replacement accepted the recommendation of the Inspector-General of Police, for the replacement of CP Miller Gagere Dantawaye with that of CP Festus Eribo, as the new substantive Commissioner of Police Akwa Ibom State Command.

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

CP Festus 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. |SituationReport|