TAFA BALOGUN ‘AN ESSENTIAL PART OF MY CAREER’ – PSC BOSS, ARASE PAYS TRIBUTE ONE YEAR AFTER
By Oki Samson, Trek Africa Newspaper
It’s one year after the demise of late Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Tafa Balogun. One of his mentees who is now the Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Dr. Solomon Arase has described him as a great leader and mentor whose strength, courage, inspection and kindness, provided immense opportunities for all those who knew and worked with him while he was alive.
Dr. Solomon Arase further noted about the late Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Tafa Balogun that he was a strong, dynamic and hardworking boss who invested hugely in the lives of many vulnerable and underprivileged Nigerian in the pursuit of justice. ‘I am grateful to have had him as a boss. He was an essential part of my career as a police officer and I remember him always with pride and honour’.
National Association of Online Security News Publishers, NAOSNP gathered from the press statement e-signed and released by Ikechukwu Ani, Head of Press and Public Relations in the Police Service Commission (PSC) that Alhaji Balogun was one of the greatest persons Dr. Arase was opportuned to work with. Arase added that even after the former IGP’s demise his good deeds still speak for him both in and out of the Police Force.
Dr. Arase further stressed that though the loss of Balogun can never be recovered, he prays he would find the reward of leading a kind life as he dwells happily with the Saints in heaven. He also enjoined the family to be comforted in the faith that Alhaji Tafa Balogun is in a better place, and prayed for the continued repose of his soul, the press statement concluded.
