Frank Mba: Nigeria’s fast growing Cop now DIG
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By Chima Azubuike
The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has approved the deployment of the two newly promoted Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, Frank Mba and Bala Ciroma to departments.
The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja.
He said Mba had been deployed to head the Department of Research and Planning while Ciroma was deployed to head the Department of Training and Development
Adejobi said Mr Hafiz Inuwa, a DIG had also been redeployed to head the Department of Logistics and Supply.
According to Adejobi, with the recent elevation, Ciroma has become the supervising DIG for the North-East and Mba, the supervisory DIG for the South-East Geo political zone.
The police spokesman said the I-G also approved the posting/redeployment of 17 Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) to various commands and formations.
He said the posting are Abubakar Lawal, AIG Zone 10 Sokoto, Abdul Umar, AIG Zone 15 Maiduguri, Williams Adebowale, AIG Zone 7 Abuja, Shettima Zanna, AIG Armament FHQ Abuja, Ebong Eyibio Ebong, AIG Zone 17 Akure and Adepoju Ilori, AIG Maritime Lagos.
Others are Okon Effiong, AIG FCID Annex Kaduna, Echeng Echeng, AIG Zone 9 Umuahia, Susan Horsefall, Commandant Staff College Jos, Bankole Sikiru, AIG DFA FHQ Abuja, Oladimeji Olanrewaju, AIG Zone 11 Osogbo and Odama Ojeka, AIG FEDOPS FHQ, Abuja.
Adejobi said other AIGs deployed are Shehu Gwarzo, AIG Forensic, Yekini Ayoku, AIG R&P, FHQ Abuja, Yahaya Abubakar, AIG FCID Alagbon Lagos, Umar Sanda, AIG Zone 1 Kano and Ede Ayuba, AIG CTU FHQ Abuja.
Adejobi said the I-G urged the senior police officers to continue to entrench professionalism and respect for rights of citizens in their new places of assignment.
The Man Mba
Mba hails from Enugu, in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State. After obtaining his First School leaving Certificate, he enrolled at the Nigeria Police Academy, Kano where he had his initial police trainings. He graduated as the best cadet inspector in academics at the Police Academy, Kano, in 1993.
Attended University of Lagos, where he read Law and was called to the Nigerian bar in 2002. He further travelled to Scotland, where he obtained a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Dundee, Scotland. He also holds a Certificate in National and International Security from the Harvard University, USA and another from the FBI National Academy, Quantico- USA.
Career
Frank Mba is a Nigerian police officer & lawyer, he became prominent in Lagos as Public Relations Officer. He was also Force Public Relations Officer as DCP, before he went to National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos, Plateau State.
He was promoted from DCP to a higher rank by the Inspector general of the police force Mr Mohammed Adamu in 2020 at Police Force headquarters, Abuja.
He had served as the Commissioner, AIG of the Nigeria Police Force and has served in the Force since 1993.
Mba’s Promotion
Some of the positions he has occupied in the Police Force;
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) – 1999
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) – 2003
Superintendent of Police (SP) – 2006
Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) – 2012
Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP)
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) – 2019
Commissioner of Police (CP) – 2020
Ogun State Commissioner of Police (CP) – 2023
Frank Mba was promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) in March 2023.
In June 16, 2023, Police Service Commission approved the promotion Frank MBA to the rank of Deputy Inspector General of Police.
