Sunday Adedayo Adewusi, Asiwaju Of Ogbomosoland
Leader, Ogbomoso Community Foundation

Chief Adewusi was elevated to progressive positions in the Nigerian Police Force:

• Assistant Superintendent of Police in 1959
• Deputy Superintendent of Police in 1962
• Superintendent of Police in 1963
• Chief Superintendent of Police in 1967
• Assistant Commissioner of Police in 1969
• Deputy Commissioner of Police in 1971
• Commissioner of Police in 1872 and Assistant Inspector General of Police Operations in 1975.

In 1981, he became the Inspector General of Police which was the peak of his career in the Nigeria Police Force. By this development, he became, at 45, the youngest IGP to date to occupy that exalted position!

His career in the police which took him to practically every part of Nigeria exposed him, first hand, to the beauty of the diversity of the Nigerian nation. This exposure afforded him the opportunity to gain a detailed and comprehensive knowledge of the cultural heritage of the peoples of Nigeria. It, as a consequence, made him an elder statesman with nationalistic outlook and disposition.

He worked assiduously and maintained a very high professional standard and integrity at all his duty posts. When he was appointed the Inspector General of Police, he discharged his duties to the best of his abilities and enjoyed unfettered access and good working relationship with the then president and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Shehu Shagari.

In actual fact, the President gave him the free hand to run the force according to his judgment. This afforded him the opportunity to introduce and carry out a great number of far-reaching reforms in the Police Force.

The Force still enjoys the enormous dividends of the reforms he introduced till today. In fact, Chief Sunday Adewusi was a serious-minded and tenacious police officer who had a sound organizational, structural and administrative grasp of the police work.

He displayed this exemplary good leadership that positively re-orientated the police force to achieve its laudable goals and objectives. He was firm, bold, courageous and resolute in the discharge of his duties right from the beginning to the end of his career. His leadership style earned him the respect of all the policemen who regarded him highly and fondly even up till today.

His tenure as the IGP is still regarded as the proudest era of the force. Even in retirement, the Asiwaju has remained a force to reckon with in the general schemes of things both locally and nationally. He has contributed in no small measures to the development and empowerment of Ogbomoso indigenes at home and abroad.

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