SP Adams Uba, whose physical look in terms of stature and age, ordinarily connotes a vulnerable being, his prodigy in policing, coupled with his intelligence and hardwork prides him amongst very few promising and personable youths this present generation should look up to, to bring sanity into the society.
A Prince of Shiroro in Niger State, Adams score sheet as a crime buster par excellence cannot be less described as superfluous.
His assumption in office as Officer-in-Charge of Zonal Intervention Squad Ikorodu Lagos on 21st November, 2019, has significantly given the zone a new lease of life as criminal elements have had to turn a new leaf or taken their incorrigible negative lifestyles out of the Zone, for fear of falling into the operatives’ dragnets that are spread across the nooks and crannies of the Zone.
Uba is highly trained and committed police officer who work diligently to the instruction of his seasons professional police boss, AIG Ahmed Iliyasu psc+ who is a sterling quality that has continually soared his pedigree.
SP Uba Adams graduated from Imo State University with B.sc Economics and got enlisted into the police force on August 15, 2002 as a Cadet Inspector, Course 36.
His first posting was to Adamawa Police Command in 2004. In 2005, he was later posted to Imo State Command, and served in the then Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), heading the Anti-Robbery Squad, code-named “Hawk Squad”, where he was till 2008. In 2009, he was mobilized and posted to Squad 32, Abakaliki in Ebonyi State. Because of his experience in operations and administration, he was made the Administrative Officer (AO) of the squad.
He was transferred by an inter squadron to Mopol 48, Ahoada in Rivers State in 2011, where he led a unit of mobile men, controlling four local government council areas, comprising Imooha, Asaritolu, Degema and Abonima.
Adams Uba was one of the mobile men who brought peace and sanity to the local government areas during the heat of militancy.
Similarly, during a communal clash that rocked Omoku, Aggah and Ngbede in Ohaji-Egbema, between 2014 and 2015, he was deployed to the area, where his professionalism was brought to fore, and restored peace to the hitherto desolate communities.
SP Uba was later transferred to Federal Operations of the Force Headquarters, Abuja where he played a vital role in the cattle rustlers and herdsmen crisis that ravaged Niger State, as Officer-in-Charge of SARS.
Thereafter, he was sent on a Special Course on anti-terrorism and other violent crimes in Enugu, and deployed to Ogun State on July 12, 2016 where he added another feather to the rank of SP.
Due to his gallantry, he was transferred from Ogun State on 5th March, 2019 to Rivers Command as a Squadron Commander of Mopol 48, Ahoada in Rivers State and later Posted to Kano as OC Anti DABA (Anti Cultism) and OC KANO SARS respectively in Kano State Command.
He is presently serving in Zone2 Onikan Lagos Command. No wonder the zone is becoming a-no-go-area for criminals because no matter how small a lion cub is, no body dares it’s den.
He won TMnews Magazine Most Consistent Police Officer of the Year 2018 and several other awards from reputable organisations.
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