Lagos — COMMISSIONER of Police, Lagos State, Mr. MD Abubarka has been elevated to the rank of an Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) and moved to Zone 2, Onikan Lagos.

He is to take over from Mr. Israel Ajao who has also been redeployed to Intelligence department, Force Headquarters, Abuja.

As at press time, Vanguard gathered that police authorities in Abuja are frantically shopping for a successor which was reliably learnt is posing a very big problem based on the laudable achievements of the outgoing police boss in Lagos State, Mr. MD Abubarka.

Sources at the Force Headquarters hinted that the present Commissioner of Police , Federal Capital Territory, Abuja , Mr. Johun Haruan would have been a better replacement but for the insistence of top officials of the FCT who were not freely disposed to his redeployment.

So far, police authorities are said to be considering three Commissioners of Police who have enviable track records comparable with MD Abubarka's. They include former Commissioner of Police, Edo State and now Commissioner of Police in charge of Mobile Police Force, Mr. Bala Hassan, another tested and trusted Commissioner of Police at the Force Headquarter in Abuja who had spent several years as an Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of administration Lagos, Mr. Ibrahim Mamman Chaffe and the present Imo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Donald Iroham.

Also on the list for consideration is the present Kogi State Commissioner of Police Mr. Abyanya and his Anambra State counterpart, Mr. Oliver Isichukwu.

Vanguard gathered that one of these Commissioners of Police will assume duty next week when the out-going Lagos State Police Commissioner would have been decorated with his new rank as an AIG.