Former Inspector General of Police Tafa Adebayo Balogun, who died on Thursday at the Reddington Hospital in Lagos, will be buried tomorrow in his hometown of Ila-Orangun, Osun State.
According to a family statement, his body would leave Lagos early tomorrow, and he would be buried at his house in Ila-Orangun before 4 pm tomorrow.
He was recently installed as the Oluomo of Igbomina in Ila-Orangun.
The ex-police died at 74, a few days before his 75th birthday on August 25.
Balogun was appointed as Nigeria’s 11th Indigenous Inspector-General of Police on March 6, 2002, and was retired on January 17, 2005.
He would also rank as the 19th IGP since 1930 when Britons were appointed as IGP.
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List of Inspectors-General of Police in Nigeria since 1930:
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1• C. W. Duncan: 1930 – 1935
2• S. H. Thranthan: 1935 – 1936
3• A Sanders: 1936 – 1937
4• A. S. Navrogordarto: 1938 – 1942
5• W. C King: 1942 – 1947
6• T. V. Finlay: 1948 – 1949
7• Sir Kerr Bovell: 1956 – 1962
8• J. E. Hodge: 1962 – 1964
9• Louis Orok Edet: 1964 – 1966
10• Kam Salem: 1966 – 1975
11• Muhammadu Yusuf: 1975 – 1979
12• Adamu Suleiman: 1979 – 1981
13• Sunday Adewusi: 1981 – 1983
14• Etim Inyang: 1985 – 1986
15• Muhammadu Gambo: Jimeta 1986 – 1990
16• Aliyu Atta: 1990 – 1993
17• Ibrahim Coomassie: 1993 – 1999
18• Musilliu Smith: 1999 – 2002
19• Mustafa A. Balogun: 2002 – 2005
20• Sunday Ehindero: 2005 – 2007
21• Mike Mbama Okiro: 2007 – 2009
22• Ogbonna O. Onovo: 2009 – 2010
23• Hafiz Ringim 2010: 2012
24• MD Abubakar: 2012 – 2014
25• Suleiman Abba: 2014 – 2015
26• Solomon Arase: 2015 – 2016
27• Ibrahim Kpotun Idris: (2016-2019)
28• Mohammed Adamu: (2019- 2021)
29• Usman Alkali Baba: (2021 – till date
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