Segun Atanda/
Lagos State police spokesman, Mr Chike Godwin Oti, has been elevated to the rank of Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), but that’s not the news.
Oti’s promotion has a special coloration. It was backdated to 2016.
Oti, who hails from Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State, was appointed as the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) by Lagos State commissioner of police (CP) Imohimi Edgal, in November 2017.
He enlisted as a cadet sub-inspector of police on May 18, 1992 with a BSc (Hons) in Business Administration from the University of Lagos.
He was trained at the Nigeria Police Academy, Kano.
Oti had served as the Officer-in-Charge of Anti-Fraud Section at Zone ‘2’; the Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Department (CIID), Onikan, Lagos, between 2015 and 2017 and Operations Officer, Department of Operations, Lagos State Police Command, 2010 and 2015.
He also served as a lecturer at the Police College, Ikeja from 2006-2010 and taught at the National Police Training Academy, Liberia, from 2007-2009, being a beneficiary of the United Nations Peace Keeping Mission in Liberia.
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