Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Francis Mobolaji Adesanya, has died in an Indian hospital after a brief illness at the age of 56. Announcing his death, the Inspector General of Police,  IGP, Ibrahim Idris, said the force received the news with a heavy heart and deep sense of loss.

Late Francis Adesanya

According to the police boss, “The late Commissioner of Police was enlisted into the Force on the 1st  February, 1986 as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police and rose through the rank. He served as Deputy Commissioner of Police Department of Operations and that of Finance and Administration in Rivers State before he was promoted and posted as Commissioner of Police Rivers State Police Command on the 20th  July, 2016, the position he held until his sudden demise on January 31 after a brief illness in India.