Gombe Police Command get new Commissioner, as CP Ishola Babaita moves to staff college Jos
Following the minor shake up by the Inspector General of Nigeria Police Usman Baba, on Thursday. The Gombe State former Commissioner Ishola Babaita, has been moved to staff college Jos, while Oqua Etim now superintends the command.
According to a press statement signed by ASP Abubakar Mahid, the Command’s Public Relations Officer which was obtained by PERISCOPE NIGERIA, Etim has become the 21st Commissioner of the state.
The statement partly read, “The Gombe State Police Command wishes to inform the members of the Public especially the citizens of Gombe State that new Commissioner of Police CP Oqua Etim has assumed duty as the 21st Commissioner of Police Gombe State Command on 11/11/2022, after taking over from CP Ishola Babatunde Babaita psc, FDMSS, who has been redeployed to Central Planning and Training Unit (CPTU), Police Staff College Jos.”
According to him, the Command has five area commands, 24 Divisions and other tactical units across the eleven Local Government Areas with the Headquarters at Gombe Local Government Area of the State.
“CP. OQUA ETIM was born on 18th October, 1963 in Maiduguri, Borno State capital but hails from Calabar Municipal Council of Cross River State, CP. OQUA ETIM was enlisted into the Nigeria Police Academy, Kaduna Annex on 3rd March, 1990 as a member Cadet ASP course 16 and was commissioned into the Nigeria Police Force as an Assistant Superintendent of Police and deployed to Oyo State Police Command in 1991.
“In the course of his career, the CP has attended so many professional courses both home and abroad.
These include the Junior and Senior Command Courses at Police Staff College Jos, United Nations Staff Officers Course at Addis Ababa Ethiopia (2005), Stability Policing Course sponsored by the Arab League at Mubarak Police Academy Cairo, Egypt (2008), the High Level Management Course at Centre of Excellence COESPU, Vicenza Italy (2008), Policy Leadership and Strategic Course at National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) Kuru-Jos (2012), and Civil Military Course at National Defense College (NDC) (2016), Abuja among others,” the statement said.
While revealing the professional exploits of Etim, Mahid noted that the current Commissioner is a member of International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), happily married with children.
He added, “The Cp has served in various capacity across commands which include: Mandatory one year attachment at Ibadan, Oyo State, Admin Officer Iwo Road Ibadan Police Station, DTO Yemetu Division Ibadan, O/c Agodi Police Station Ibadan, O/c Nysc Orientation Camp Ibadan, served as P.A to 3 Command Commissioners of Police in Oyo Command, Command Provost, IGP Sec. as Staff officer / POWA liaison officer FHQ Abuja, Team Leader General Investigation Department FHQ Abuja, 2i/c Special Fraud Unit FCID Abuja, AC Operations Ekiti State Command from (2013-2015), The first ACP Special Protection Unit (SPU) FHQ Abuja (2015-2016), ACP Admin Research and Planning FHQ Abuja, DCP Force Armament Abuja (2018), DCP Admin Lagos State Police Command (2019- Jan,2021), DCP Admin Nasarawa State Command (2021), DCP Admin Force Operations Department Abuja and CP FCID Annex Northeast, Gombe before being deployed as CP Gombe State.
“The new Commissioner of Police however solicits the cooperation of members of the public in checkmating crime and criminality in the State and assures them of visible community and intelligence led policing as he affirms his commitments to improving on what his predecessor has emplaced to secure the State.”
