Nigerian govt appoints, decorates 15 DCGs of paramilitary services

The Federal Government of Nigeria has appointed and decorated 15 caller Deputy Comptrollers General, Deputy Controllers General and Deputy Commandants General, DCGs, of the 4 paramilitary services nether the Ministry of Interior.

The 15 decorated DCGs were among the 79 elder officers precocious promoted, including Assistant Comptrollers Generals (ACGs) and Comptrollers crossed the 4 agencies.

Speaking astatine the event, the Minister of Interior, Mr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, said that the promotions were justly done.

It was gathered that retired of the 15 DCGs, the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has the highest, seven; the Nigeria Correctional Service, NCoS, with four; the Federal Fire Service, FFS, has one; and, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has three.

The minister, who acknowledged the backlog of promotion, said that promotion of unit of the 4 agencies had been regular since the inception of the medication of President Bola Tinubu.

He, however, wondered wherefore immoderate officers had for years stagnated connected 1 fertile owed to nary responsibility of theirs.

“But nether President Tinubu’s administration, unit of the work bash not request to cognize anyone for them to beryllium promoted.

“My complaint to you is that the paramilitary agencies should ne'er stay the same. As a substance of fact, we are bare for innovations.

“The epoch of nepotism is gone and I volition repetition what the president ever says that, astatine immoderate constituent successful time, we tin lone accidental we person a state to beryllium arrogant of erstwhile the lad of a cipher tin go idiosyncratic without the power of anybody.

“I bash not request to cognize you, but I privation to consciousness the interaction of your work. For 2024 promotions, we are astir done,” helium said.

The Interior Minister charged the recently promoted DCGs to redouble their efforts successful helping the president to execute the Renewed Hope docket successful their respective agencies.

Earlier, Ja’afaru Ahmed, caput of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board, CDCFIB, expressed restitution that 79 elder officers person been promoted to their adjacent fertile successful the 4 agencies.

According to him, the NIS got 22, FFS had 12, NCoS got 22, portion the remaining 23 were from the NSCDC.

Ahmed said that the existent medication had ensured that yearly promotions were concluded wrong the twelvemonth of promotions dissimilar successful the past erstwhile immoderate promotions were carried implicit to different year.

Nigerian govt appoints, decorates 15 DCGs of paramilitary services