The famous Imo Civil Guard Corps, which was created from the Imo
Orientation Agency (IOA), was formally founded on July 26, 2013 by the amiable
and indefatigable governor of Imo State – Chief Owelle Rochas Okorocha, OON.
Since the establishment of the paramilitary body in Imo State – the Eastern
Heartland, it has been discharging its duties in the area of Guard services,
Traffic and Crowd Control, effectively and relentlessly.
Indeed, the success story of the Imo State Civil Guard (IMCG) cannot be
completed without mentioning the renowned security giant - Chief Sir Donatus
Ewe Ejifugha, KSJI who has, from the onset as the Commandant General of the
corps, been doing everything humanly possible to ensure that the body becomes
an envy of all in Imo State and in the diaspora.
After his primary, secondary and university educations at Ubachima
Primary School Awo-Omamma, Comprehensive Secondary School Awo-Omamma, and Abia
State University (ABSU) Uturu, Abia State, respectively, the young and vibrant
Donatus Ewe Ejifugha was enlisted into the Nigeria Police Force on 1st
June 1974.
After his stewardship at Aba and Umuahia Police Stations between 1974 and 1979; from 1979 to 1985, he was assigned to the Imo State Government House under Chief Dr Sam Mbakwe and Brigadier Ike Nwachukwu’s administrations respectively. Subsequently, from 1988 to 1990, he was the Officer in Charge of Anti-Robbery Squad at Olu Obasanjo Police Station, Port-Harcourt Rivers State; after which he was transferred to the Zone 9 – Umuahia as well as the Imo State Police Command.
From 1995 to 1997, he served under the Force Criminal Investigation
Department (C.I.D) at Alagbon Close, Ikoyi in Lagos State. Due to his high
level of vibrancy and competence, in 1997, Chief Ejifugha was reassigned to the
Imo State Headquarters C.I.D Unit – Owerri, as the Officer in Charge (O/C) of
the Anti-Vice Squad of the Unit; a position he held till the year 2000.
As a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), the proactive Ejifugha
served in three different locations starting from Osisioma Police Station, to
Central Police Station –Aba, and Ukwa Divisional Police Station; all in Abia
State, from 2000 to 2002, 2002 to 2004, and 2004 to 2006, respectively.
Furthermore, in 2006, he was assigned to serve as the Area Commander (O/C
Operations) at Aba Area Command; where he retired after thirty five (35) years
of meritorious service, on 1st June 2009 precisely, as a Chief
Superintendent of Police (CSP).
Due to his passion for service to humanity, immediately after his
retirement, he joined Politics. As it is widely noted that a gold fish has no
hidden place, in 2011 after the emergence of Owelle Rochas Okorocha as the
Governor of Imo State, Chief Sir Donatus Ejifugha, KSJI was appointed as the
Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the Governor on Security and Advanced
Protocol; a position he held till 2012. In the same vein, he was later
appointed by the Governor as the Sole administrator of Oru East Local
Government Area.
With regard to his dogged and ebullient nature coupled with his experience as a retired security expert, in 2013, His Excellency Owelle Rochas Okorocha went further to appoint him to super head the Imo State Civil Guard Corps as the pioneer Commandant General; a position he is expected to hold for five (5) consecutive years as the law stipulates. There is no gain reiterating that the ongoing pragmatic dispensation of the Imo Civil Guard in Imo State at large is not unconnected to the fact that an ever-competent man Chief Donatus Ejifugha is piloting the affairs of the corps. This is the singular reason the People’s Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha always addresses him as “A round peg in a round hole”.
Of course it is longer news that the officers and the entire management and staff of the Imo State Civil Guard Corps have been performing up to the expectation of any concerned Imolite both home and abroad. Since the emergence of the corps, the officers have been working continually to ensure that Crowd and Traffic congestion as well as Street hawking become a thing of the past in Imo State in its entirety. The 2003 and 2004 Operation Zero Traffic Congestion and Operation Free Flow of Traffic respectively, during the festive periods of the aforementioned years, is one of the yardsticks of the ever-performing nature of the corps.
As regards his numerous contributions to selfless service to humanity,
Chief Ejifugha has bagged series of awards from various social and religious
organizations or institutions such as Rotary International Club – District 9140
Owerri, National Association of South-East Students, Federation of Oru
Students’ Associstion, Boy’s and Girl”s Brigade – Nigeria, and Christ the King
Catholic Church (C.K.C) Awo-Omamma; just to mention but a few. Also, due to his
innumerable efforts coupled with his countless contributions to the activities
of the Catholic dominion and the Church at large, on Sunday 2nd
November 2014, he was honoured by the global Catholic Community as a Knight of Saint John International (KSJI).
On the other hand, his remarkable and outstanding personality made him to be honoured with various Chieftaincy titles by different Autonomous Communities across Nigeria, to include; Ode Jim-Jim I of Awo-Omamma, Ome Ka Agu I of Umuahia Ibeku, Nwata Kwochaa Aka I of Abayi Aba, Ogba Egbe I of Uturu, among others.
Surely, by painstakingly
considering the overwhelming achievements and unrelenting hard-work of this
tireless Masquerade - Chief Sir
Honourable Donatus Ewe Ejifugha, KSJI, in both human and societal developments,
it is needless to state that he is no doubt a star everyone wishes to behold.
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