IGP promotes Sergeant to Inspector for sewing bullet-proof jacket

A serving Sergeant with the Bauchi State Police
Command, Godwin Hosea, has been promoted to the rank
of an Inspector by the Inspector-General of Police,
Solomon Arase, for sewing a bullet-proof jacket.

Decorating the newly promoted Inspector at the Police
Headquarters in Bauchi, yesterday, the Commissioner
of Police in the state, Mohammed Mohammed,
commended him for displaying exceptional talent.
In a statement by the state Police command,
spokesperson, DSP Haruna Mohammed, the police
commissioner was quoted to have said, “On July 22,
2015, during a one day official working visit to the
Bauchi State Police Command by the Inspector General
of Police, Solomon Arase, one F/No 218346 Sgt
Godwin Hosea presented a fabricated bullet-proof jacket
he manufactured locally to the IGP during a lecture
parade at the Bauchi Police Command State
Headquarters.

“As a result, a visibly happy IGP instantly promoted the
Sgt to the rank of Inspector with effect from July 22,
2015.”
Mohammed, who was represented by the Deputy
Commissioner of Police, Sumonu Abdumalik, urged
Hosea to rededicate himself to duty and reciprocate the
gesture done to him by the IGP.

The CP also called on other officers to emulate Hosea
and harness their God given talents in order to move the
Force and the nation forward, even as he thanked IGP
Solomon Arase, for giving personnel welfare a top
priority in his administration.