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| Former IG Sunday Adewusi. |
A former
Inspector-General of Police, Sunday Adewusi has passed
away at the National
Hospital, Abuja.
He died about 9pm
on Tuesday night after a brief illness, according to police sources. He was 80.
Adewusi was the
youngest police officer to become the IG in 1981 at 45 years.
Before his
appointment as IG, the Asiwaju of Ogbomosholand, was promoted as
Assistant Superintendent of Police in 1959; Deputy Superintendent of Police in
1962; Superintendent of Police in 1963; Chief Superintendent of Police in 1967;
Assistant Commissioner of Police in 1969 and Deputy Commissioner of Police in
1971.
At 32, he became
a Commissioner of Police in 1972 and Assistant Inspector-General of
Police in 1975.
His career in the
police which took him to practically every part of Nigeria exposed him, first
hand, to the beauty of the diversity of the Nigerian nation.
This exposure
afforded him the opportunity to gain a detailed and comprehensive knowledge of
the cultural heritage of the peoples of Nigeria.
Born in
Nassarawa Eggon LGA of Nassarawa State to the family of Pa Abraham Ishola
Adewusi and Princess Abeje, he began began his educational career at the Church
Missionary Society and Roman Catholic Mission Schools from 1944 to 1948.
He proceeded to
Baptist Day School, Jos between 1949 and 1950 to complete his Standard Six
education.
The Asiwaju
had his secondary education at keffi from 1951 to 1956.
He joined the
Nigeria Police Force and had his basic police training at the Police College
from 1957 to 1958 as a cadet sub-inspector.
Source: Punch Newspaper
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