Imo State Governor appoints retired Dan Okoro as Special Adviser on Security

 Juliana Francis

Okoro

Retired Commissioner of Police, Mr Dan Nkem Okoro, has been appointed as the Special Adviser on Security to the Executive Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma.

It was gathered that the governor considered Okoro for the plum job after studying his profile and records of his service in the Nigeria Police Force.

Okoro is expected to assist Uzodinma is fine-tuning policies and programmes that would help in strengthening security in the tourists’ state.

Okoro would also bring his long years of experience in intelligence to bear and help the governor check violent crimes, kidnapping and other crimes peculiar to oil producing state like Imo. Okoro is a cop of many iconic breakthroughs.

He was one of the most decorated policemen during his active years in the Police.

Okoro became a super cop in Nigeria and received many medals his courage and intelligence from former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, after he arrested Lagos-based Internet fraudsters who killed Cynthia Osokogu, a postgraduate student of Nasarawa State University and daughter of a retired General, Frank Osokogu.

Okoro was also commended for rejecting N15million offered to release the killers on bail. He again successfully prosecuted the killers and got death sentences from some unknown people because of the killers.

Before then, he had received the IGP Ibrahim Coomasie Award for Brilliant Investigation and Courage, award from the Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), the late Gen. Musa Bamaiyi for dedication and tact, when he recovered hard drugs worth several millions of naira at the airport. He won the Best Area Commander in Nigeria award in 2013 at a ceremony in Ghana, and he was acclaimed as the Best Forensic Investigator in West Africa at an event organized by Security Watch Africa, in South Africa, among other recognitions.

Okoro, a graduate of University of Lagos, Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomoso, and Imo State University, Owerri, bagged a degree in Law (LLB), a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Administration.

He had also received training at the Egyptian Police Academy and at the Israeli Intelligence Agency, Mossad.