{"id":3176,"date":"2019-01-16T18:29:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T18:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousereport.com\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2019-01-16T18:29:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T18:29:01","slug":"police-commissioners-others-storm-abuja-lobby-new-ig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=3176","title":{"rendered":"Police Commissioners, Others Storm Abuja, Lobby New IG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Police commissioners, deputy commissioners and assistant Police commissioners have stormed the Force Headquarters to lobby the newly appointed Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu,\u00a0<em>The PUNCH<\/em>\u00a0has learnt.<\/p>\n<p>Our correspondent learnt that with most of the deputy inspectors-general leaving the service, vacancies will be created in the system, with some CPs and AIGs getting accelerated promotions.<\/p>\n<p>Some departments regarded as \u2018juicy\u2019 include the administration and finance, housing, as well as procurement.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most sought-after postings among Police commissioners and senior officers include: Lagos, Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, FCT, Police Mobile Force, oil protection units and foreign missions attach\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>There is also expected to be some reshuffling soon ahead of next month\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<p>Some states are also considered to be \u2018juicy\u2019 during election seasons.<\/p>\n<p>A CP who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity, however, said they were only coming to pay homage to the new IG and not necessarily to lobby for juicy positions.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI am here to pay homage to my new boss and pledge my loyalty. I am not here to lobby anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Police commissioners, deputy commissioners and assistant Police commissioners have stormed the Force Headquarters to lobby the newly appointed Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu,\u00a0The PUNCH\u00a0has learnt. Our correspondent learnt that with most of the deputy inspectors-general leaving the service, vacancies will be created in the system, with some CPs and AIGs getting accelerated promotions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[215,2193,2192],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abuja","tag-new-ig","tag-police-commissioner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3178,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions\/3178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}