Popular Commissioner of Police in charge of the Ikeja Police College, Lagos State, Tunde Shobulo, has died.
Shobulo died on Friday in Canada after suffering a protracted illness which some claimed was diabetes and others claimed was colon cancer.
Police sources said that at a time, during the illness, Shobulo had to move his office downstairs at the Ikeja Police College.
He had however adamantly refused to quit coming to the office even as his health worsened.
He had to be flown to Canada where he finally died on Friday.
Shobulo, for a long time was Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations in Lagos State Police Command, before he was finally promoted to the position of Commissioner.
The Ogun State indigene was survived by two wives and children.
He schooled at the Providence learning centre in Providence Rhoda Island, United States and had his High school diploma at the Bristol Community College.
He obtained an Associate in Law Enforcement in Massachusetts, United States before proceeding to North America Institute of Political Science where he got a diploma.
He also attended Roger Williams University in Bristol Rhode Island and had a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and Administration and had his MBA in Public Service (Public Law).
He thereafter worked briefly in the United State Prisons as well as the Rhode Island department of corrections before returning to Nigeria for his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) with the police where he assisted in reorganising the police detective training school then at Alagbon.
He then fully joined the police and was posted to Lagos as the Divisional Police Officer, Alausa Police Station.
He also became the Commander of Mopol 20, and later became the first Commander of the Rapid Response Squad. He was also Commander of Operation Sweep, Area Commander, Orlu in Imo State, Area Commander Ondo at different times.
